Problem with bcm43xx-80211

[Martin Marques]

awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com escribió:
> ---- "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote: 
>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> I recently upgraded to the latest kernel on FC6, 2.6.22.1-32.fc6, and when I
>>> did, my wireless failed to initialize. I posted a query here, and it was
>>> suggested I needed to upgrade to version 4 of the bcm43xx driver. I found this
>>> procedure to do so:
>>>
>>> # you need to be root
>>> wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
>>> tar -xjvf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
>>> bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o
>>>
>>> When I run the bcm43xx-fwcutter command, I get this error:
>>>
>>> Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by bcm43xx-fwcutter.
>>> This file has an unknown MD5sum 9207bc565c2fc9fa1591f6c7911d3fc0.
>>>
>>> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>> i've done the above a number of times, without fail.  are you sure the
>> tarball file itself is uncorrupted?
>>
> My experience with tar files says that if the file uncompresses and "un-archives", the tar file is not corrupted. Not a 100% guarantee of course. If files within the tar archive were corrupt, seems like more people would be complaining. So I can't rule this out, but it seems unlikely.

Watch out, I just read that there has been changes to the bcm firmware, 
and so bcm43xx-fwcutter doesn't work.

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