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

Alexander Volovics a.volovic at upcmail.nl
Wed Jan 25 09:31:53 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:23:50AM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Alexander Volovics

> > 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?

 
> It is the problem.  That firmware needs b43-fwcutter-015; older
> versions won't work with it.
> 
> I filed a bug [1] asking for b43-fwcutter to be updated.  In the
> meantime, I built an updated version because I'll probably need it for
> one of my machines when it gets updated later:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3730189

> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784390

Thanks for the confirmation and the references.
I will wait for the update to show up. No hurry, I only need wireless
occasionaly.

AV
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