---- "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > My experience with tar files says that if the file uncompresses and "un-archives", the tar file is not corrupted. Not a 100% guarantee of course. If files within the tar archive were corrupt, seems like more people would be complaining. So I can't rule this out, but it seems unlikely. Andrew
