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sacarde

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 389

[solved] error b43 instead bcm43xx

hi,
   in my mac-mini ppc I have installed same time ago, airport reading:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … up#BCM43XX

and works OK

then, now in kernel 2.6.25, wlan0 is not created....

I try to load new driver b43..... and wlan0 is created but when I run

dhclient  wlan0

I have error:

Jul 18 09:24:29 myhost dhclient:
Jul 18 09:24:30 myhost input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input6
Jul 18 09:24:30 myhost firmware.sh[18592]: Cannot find  firmware file 'b43/ucode5.fw'

what  is module?

thanks for help

Last edited by sacarde (2008-07-18 07:54:06)

sacarde

Member

Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 389

Re: [solved] error b43 instead bcm43xx

I found solution in:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

I remove bcm43xx-fwcutter and installed relative b43-fwcutter

I reinstall firmware :

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broa … .5.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta_mimo.o

and now it is working again