Brodcom 43 Failing of FC8

Thu Jan 31 20:40:09 UTC 2008

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:25:57 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:

> Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED escribió:
>> I installed FC8 on my dual boot laptop, and ran "yum update". when I
>> try to activate Broadcom 43 my wifi, I get:
>> 
>> 
>>    SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>> 
>>    Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or
>>    directory
>>    SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>> 
>> Note lspci:
>> ...
>> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390
>> WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
>> ...
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> Check dmesg. There must be more info there (especially when b43 is
> loaded).

Yes, indeed, dmesg:

b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found or load failed.
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/
   Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware
   (version 4).
input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input13

Thanks again,
Mike.