Where can I find this firmware file?

[David G. Miller]

Some good news but its really bad news.  I was able to get a connection 
to my WAP from my laptop with the bcm43xx driver.  This is really bad 
news since I was only able to make this happen after I ran across this 
item on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Dapper:

"I finally got the BCM4306 in my iBook working with the Dapper kernel. 
Critical things for me (in addition to these docs) were: 1) Had to 
change my network to use Open System authentication, it didn't work with 
Shared Key...."

If I understand the various flavors of wireless encryption and 
authentication correctly (which is very doubtful), this means that 
someone else could connect and listen although my data would be 
encrypted.  The door isn't wide open but its open more than requiring 
key authentication in order to get a connection to my WAP.

Also, once I got the connection working I was able to recreate the hard 
lockup by changing my WAP back to "shared key" authentication and then 
using iwconfig to put the connection on the laptop into "restricted" 
mode.  Ouch.  There is a "bcm43xx and WPA with Softmac HOW-TO" link on 
the bcm project documentation page.  Unfortunately, 
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2006-April/001660.html 
isn't allowing connections at the moment and there doesn't seem to be a 
mirror or Google cache of the contents.

Cheers,
Dave

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