On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Andrew Robinson wrote: > I recently upgraded to the latest kernel on FC6, 2.6.22.1-32.fc6, and when I > did, my wireless failed to initialize. I posted a query here, and it was > suggested I needed to upgrade to version 4 of the bcm43xx driver. I found this > procedure to do so: > > # you need to be root > wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 > tar -xjvf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 > bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o > > When I run the bcm43xx-fwcutter command, I get this error: > > Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by bcm43xx-fwcutter. > This file has an unknown MD5sum 9207bc565c2fc9fa1591f6c7911d3fc0. > > Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? i've done the above a number of times, without fail. are you sure the tarball file itself is uncorrupted? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
