Broadcom 4306 Wireless in Fedora 10

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Sat Feb 28 22:55:11 UTC 2009


FC10 / KDE
I can't get a Broadcom 4306 wireless card working.

lsmod shows a b43legacy driver loading.

The firmware installed, b43-fwcutter-011-3.fc9.i386

This website shows different drivers , but I'm confused about which 
firmware is correct.
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Dr...devicefirmware 
<http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Driversb43#devicefirmware>



Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN 
Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb


NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
kernel: input: b43legacy-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input10
localhost kernel: firmware: requesting b43legacy/ucode4.fw
localhost firmware.sh[2089]: Cannot find firmware file 'b43legacy/ucode4.fw'
localhost kernel: b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file 
"b43legacy/ucode4.fw" not found or load failed.
localhost kernel: b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: You must go to 
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Dr...devicefirmware 
<http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware> and 
download the correct firmware (version 3).
localhost NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_hw_bring_up(): (wlan0): 
device not up after timeout!
localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
localhost kernel: input: b43legacy-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input11




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