On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:30:12 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:58:07 -0200, Martin Marques wrote: > >> > >> > Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED escribió: > >> >> > >> >> So I did what it says, and: > >> >> > >> >> [root@mbrc15 driver]# which b43-fwcutter /usr/bin/b43-fwcutter > >> >> [root@mbrc15 driver]# b43-fwcutter -v b43-fwcutter version 009 > > > > those first two commands don't seem to make much sense -- why would you > > run the "which" command on b43-fwcutter only to have an extra argument > > of the fully-qualified file name? i'm guessing you combined the which > > command and its output on a single line, and that's really not a good > > idea if you're trying to explain what you did. > > > > rday > > -- > [...] > > Yes, I see now that lines were inappropriately merged. I had: > > [root@mbrc15 driver]# which b43-fwcutter > /usr/bin/b43-fwcutter > [root@mbrc15 driver]# b43-fwcutter -v > b43-fwcutter version 009 > [root@mbrc15 driver]# b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta_mimo.o > Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter. > This file has an unknown MD5sum cb8d70972b885b1f8883b943c0261a3c. > [root@mbrc15 driver]# > [root@mbrc15 driver]# pwd > /root/broadcom/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver > > > which I hope appears as 10 lines, as it did when I originally > posted it. In any case, this is OBE, since I was using the > wrong version. It is now working, but I am yet to try encryption. when i first tried the above several weeks ago, i couldn't get even simple WEP encryption to work. more recently, though, encryption seems to work fine. let me know if you run across anything interesting, and i can add it to the wiki page. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
