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

[oleksandr korneta]

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?


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Oleksandr Korneta

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