Wireless firmware missing

Roger arelem at bigpond.com
Wed Apr 4 05:57:30 UTC 2012


> I'm fairly certain that laptop does have a Broadcom 43xx wireless 
> adapter, but you can check with ’lspci’.
>
> There are instructions for downloading and installing firmware for 
> that adapter here:
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Fedora
>
> > The Laptop wireless worked well in Ubuntu Oneric but not Fedora 16.
> > I really need to solve this urgently but have run out of ideas
> > Can someone please assist
> > thanks in advance
> > Roger
>
> -T.C.
>
> Thanks Tom
> Yes it seems to have a Broadcom adaptor.
I started the install of b43-fwcutter and after using make it gives errors:
DEPEND dep/md5.d
DEPEND /dep/fwcutter.d
make: *** [obj /fwcutter.0] Error 127

What does this mean please?
thanks
Roger



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