Does Fedora 7 support my wireless device?

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

"John Lagrue" <jlagrue at gmail.com> writes:
> At first sight, the answer is "no". dmesg shows "bcm43xx_mac80211:
> Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load
> failed."
>
> But before I go wandering off to install ndiswrapper, as I have done
> for the last year, I was wondering if anyone more knowledgeable than I
> could let me know if by tweaking things I can get the device working
> natively.

It is telling you that you are missing the microcode -- the same
microcode you'll need to hunt down to run ndiswrapper.

Simplest thing to do is "yum install bcm43xx-fwcutter" and follow the
instructions at /usr/share/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter-006/* .

-wolfgang
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