bcm43xx microcode error

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sat Jan 7 22:01:37 UTC 2006


On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 10:57:14PM +0100, DI Mario Bruckschwaiger wrote:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > when using the latest kernel-2.6.15-1.1826.2.4_FC5 and the bcm43xx 
 > driver instead of ndiswrapper I get the error:
 > 
 > bcm43xxx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xxx_microcode5.fw" not available or 
 > load failed

You need to grab the firmware out of a windows driver
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/fwcutter  is a good starting point.

		Dave




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