Wireless connection

Chris Kottaridis chriskot at quietwind.net
Sat Apr 12 04:22:39 UTC 2008


I have an Inspiron 1510 laptop and I've been trying to get the wireless
network up and running. I've been using the Network manager and at the
moment I have things so that when I try to activate the network I find
these messages in /var/log/messages:

Apr 11 15:32:32 lapper kernel: input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input15
Apr 11 15:32:32 lapper kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file
"b43/ucode5.fw" not found or load failed.
Apr 11 15:32:32 lapper kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and
download the latest firmware (version 4).
Apr 11 15:32:32 lapper firmware.sh[3061]: Cannot find  firmware file
'b43/ucode5.fw'

So, I go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware
and it says:

There are different versions of firmware and tools you may need: 

Driver 


Kernel 


Firmware 


Firmware
extractor 


Instructions 


b43 


Linux-2.6.24,
including
2.6.24-rcX and
2.6.24.Y 


4.80.53.0 


b43-fwcutter
v. 011 


Go 


b43 


Bleeding edge,
i.e.
compat-wireless-2.6 package, linus-2.6 or wireless-2.6 trees 


4.150.10.5 


b43-fwcutter
v. 011 


Go 


b43legacy 


Any 


3.130.20.0 


b43-fwcutter
v. 011 


Go 


bcm43xx
(deprecated) 


Any 


3.130.20.0 


bcm43xx-fwcutter v. 6 


Go 


My kernel is:

kernel: Linux version 2.6.23.1-42.fc8
(kojibuilder at xenbuilder4.fedora.phx.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2
20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 13:55:12 EDT 2007

So, I don't think I want the first two b43 options. But, I am not sure
if I should use the b43legacy or bmc43xx version.

How do I find out which of these I should use ?

I'd assume the b43legacy as it seems to be the newest version.

Thanks

Chris Kottaridis
    (chriskot at quietwind.net)




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