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

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Alexander Volovics
<a.volovic at upcmail.nl> wrote:
> 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.

It's maintainer kindly built an update a mere two hours after I filed
the bug.  :-)

It's in updates-testing now.  You can install it by running:
yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update b43-fwcutter

If you install it, please give it karma to get it in stable updates faster:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-0908/b43-fwcutter-015-1.fc16

-T.C.