Need help w/ bcm43xx-mac80211 issues? (ndiswrapper considered harmful)

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:23:23PM -0400, oleksandr korneta wrote:
> on 06/04/2007 09:17 AM John W. Linville wrote:
> >First, the issue that lots of people are having...if you are getting
> >the "YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO OLD" issue, I recommend that you follow
> >this procedure:
> >
> >	# 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
> >
> >That should fix things for most people.  However, some people still
> 
> does this work for x86_64 as well, or is there some other stuff I have 
> to download?

Firmware used on the card has nothing to do with the host arch,
so it should work just as well on x86_64.

John
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