Differences between version 3 and predecessor to the previous major change of BroadcomWirelessChipset.
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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, July 16, 2006 1:30:56 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Sunday, July 16, 2006 1:24:08 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
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Previously there was not good support for this in the LinuxKernel but more recent versions (>= 2.6.17) are adding support.
You will need to extract firmware from a MicrosoftWindows driver by using a tool called fwcutter available from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4547 or in DebianLinux as a package called bcm43xx-fwcutter.
-Run this program and put the extracted firmware into <pre
>/lib/firmware</pre
> - you should change the owner and group to root.
+Run this program like <tt>sudo bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware bcmwl5.sys</tt> where bcmwl5.sys is the name of your driver file (this is the most common one)
and it will
put the extracted firmware into <tt
>/lib/firmware</tt
> - you should change the owner and group to root.
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