Does Fedora 7 support my wireless device?

[John Lagrue]

ok....

installed the package and then used it to extract the firmware from my
driver files for the XP with which I dual-boot. This is a 64-bit
machine, so I assumed that I should use the bcmwl564.sys file. It
extracted ok, but gave me this warning:

"This file contains new version4
firmware. v4 firmware is _not_ supported by
the driver in mainline kernels. For v4 firmware
you need latest bcm43xx development version
(wireless-dev kernel tree). If you don't know what
this warning is about, use a 3.xx.xx.xx driver version
instead to extract the firmware."

What should I do next?


On 03/06/07, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
<wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200706 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "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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