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#1 2008-06-19 13:48:31

Mr Green
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bcm43xx driver error [Solved]

Hi,

followed wiki guide to set up wireless bcm43xx

got this error

bcm43xx-fwcutter -w "/lib/firmware/" wl_apsta_mimo.o
Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by bcm43xx-fwcutter.
This file has an unknown MD5sum cb8d70972b885b1f8883b943c0261a3c.

d/l broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2  as stated ? is this correct for 2.6.25...

MrG

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#2 2008-06-19 13:57:39

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Re: bcm43xx driver error [Solved]

read http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Dri … stallation for bcm43xx you need older version of firmware 3.130.20.0.

If you are using the old deprecated bcm43xx driver, follow these instructions.

Use version 006 of bcm43xx-fwcutter.
Download, extract the bcm43xx-fwcutter tarball and build it:

wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/bcm43xx-fwcutter-006.tar.bz2
tar xjf bcm43xx-fwcutter-006.tar.bz2
cd bcm43xx-fwcutter-006
make
cd ..

Use version 3.130.20.0 of Broadcom's proprietary driver.
Download and extract the firmware from this driver:

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
sudo ./bcm43xx-fwcutter-006/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

but why do you use bcm43xx instead of b43legacy?

for b43legacy you could use the latest version of b43-fwcutter and the same old firmware smile

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#3 2008-06-19 14:32:11

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Re: bcm43xx driver error [Solved]

ok I'll give it go thanks ....


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#4 2008-06-19 19:46:08

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Re: bcm43xx driver error [Solved]

extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ...
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_microcode2.fw: No such file or directory

tried a couple but get the same error unless arch uses a different path

EDIT created /lib/firmware that seemed to help......

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#5 2008-06-19 19:51:09

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Re: bcm43xx driver error [Solved]

maybe you want to make that directory
mkdir bcm43xx
i advice you to use b43legacy because bcm43xx is deprecated

b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

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#6 2008-06-19 20:04:08

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Re: bcm43xx driver error [Solved]

Well its working :-), I used hwdetect to show modules required... I did read bcm43xx is out of date will try b43legacy.......

 hwdetect --net
MODULES=(r8169 slhc bcm43xx)

Thanks for your help


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