On Feb 9, 2008 8:43 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 09 February 2008 15:40:15 glenn greenfield wrote: > > I have built and installed the compat-wireless-2.6 The installation > > went fine, the card comes up and even obtains an i.p. but that's where > > it ends. dmesg tells me that I have an old firmware version and to > > get the latest which I have attempted to do but I cannot extract the > > firmware > > > > broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5 > b43-fwcutter driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o > > Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter. > > This file has an unknown MD5sum cb8d70972b885b1f8883b943c0261a3c. > > > > I have attempted to extract the firmware at least 12 times on 2 > > different systems (both Debian) with the same results each time. I > > used wget to download the firmware as well as Firefox. Am I doing it > > incorrectly? Is it possible to download the extracted firmware > > someplace? > > fwcutter too old. > People, please switch brains on before posting questions... > This is really trivial to see why it fails. > > -- > Greetings Michael. > Ah yes thanks for that. Getting the latest version does indeed work. I was simply reading the directions found here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware The link for fwcutter on that page is to an older version. http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-009.tar.bz2
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