Fed 16 + Broadcom wlan 4312 + kernel-3.2.1-3

[Alexander Volovics]

On 01/24/2012 06:33 PM, Jim wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 12:05 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
>> I have a Broadcom wlan 4312 [14e4:4315] in my laptop.
>>
>> After the latest kernel update to kernel-3.2.1-13 I decided to install
>> the necessary firmware heeding the following dmesg output:
>>
>> [ 82.515047] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode15.fw" not found
>> [ 82.515054] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode15.fw" not
>> found
>> [ 82.515060] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and
>> download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please
>> carefully read all instructions on this website.
>>
>> The website suggests downloading broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 if
>> using the b43 driver from the 3.2 kernel.
>>
>> I did that but then this happens:
>>
>> b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o
>> Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter.
>> This file has an unknown MD5sum e1b05e268bcdbfef3560c28fc161f30
>>
>> b43-fwcutter in Fed 16 is version 0.14 and indeed the FW15 file
>> supported by b43-fwcutter version 0.14 has a different md5sum.
>>
>> The wireless.kernel.org site also advices using b43-fwcutter version
>> 0.15 but this version does not seem to be available for fed 16.
>>
>> Can this be the problem?


> You want ito nstall kmod-wl and it will install all dependencies .
>
> Then you want to go into /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and enter
> "blacklist b43-fwcutter" w/o quotes

Why would I do that?
I already have a driver "b43" from the new kernel-3.2 loaded and this 
seems to be the advised driver, not the wl driver.

I am just missing the firmware!

AV