No WIFI under HP Probook 4515s

Zoltan Hoppar hopparz at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 19:28:10 UTC 2010


Ok,

I have discovered the I chosen the wrong firmware. Then I discovered too
that I have an low-power Broadcom LP-PHY 1612. I have extracted the apsta
module successfully, but - there is no working wifi. What shall I do?

2010/8/19 Zoltan Hoppar <hopparz at gmail.com>

> There is only one tiny little problem.
>
> [zoltan at localhost ~]$ tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.3.tar.bz2
> [zoltan at localhost ~]$ cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.3/driver
> [zoltan at localhost driver]$ b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta_mimo.o
> Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter.
> This file has an unknown MD5sum b84bc801b9b8f39069c252f533655af8.
>
> What's next?
>
> 2010/8/19 JB <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com>
>
> Zoltan Hoppar <hopparz <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > Hi guys,
>> > Currently I have run out of ideas about how to activate, and create an
>> working
>> > wifi on my new machine. It uses an Broadcom PHY - Broadcom Corporation
>> BCM4312
>> > 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01).
>> > I have followed the the advices at linuxwireless.org - but no effect.
>> Maybe I
>> > have made mistakes, or something went wrong - I couldn't tell that.
>>
>> Hi,
>> this is the relevant page:
>> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>>
>> ...
>> device firmware installation
>> Fedora
>> ...
>> Next, download the Windows driver:
>> do not use the download link blindly; first check which driver is the
>> latest:
>>
>> http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/
>>
>> broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.1.tar.bz2                   16-Jan-2008 03:33
>>  3846454
>> broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.2.tar.bz2                   28-Sep-2008 20:42
>>  3877524
>> broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.3.tar.bz2                   21-Dec-2009 16:46
>>  3906094
>> broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2                     08-Oct-2008 15:11
>>  3888794
>> broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2                     19-Feb-2009 18:46
>>  5986780
>> broadcom-wl-4.80.17.0.tar.bz2                      14-Jan-2008 04:09
>>  869561
>> broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2                      14-Jan-2008 04:09
>>  904072
>> broadcom-wl-4.80.9.2.tar.bz2                       20-Jun-2006 04:45
>>  857282
>>
>> According to the above list the latest driver is:
>> broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.3.tar.bz2                   21-Dec-2009 16:46
>>  3906094
>>
>> So, make sure that you download this one as instructed:
>> wget
>> http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.3.tar.bz2
>>
>> Now continue installing this driver as instructed.
>> ...
>> Reboot.
>>
>> JB
>>
>>
>>
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