Differences between version 6 and predecessor to the previous major change of BroadcomWirelessChipset.
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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 2:25:58 pm | by BenoitRouits | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:54:30 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
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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.
NB The standard drivers shipped with hardware do not work with Broadcom 4306 sometimes so it is suggested to use the driver file here - http://drinus.net/airport/wl_apsta.o
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+In particular you may need to use the above driver if you get the following error in your logs:
+<verbatim>
+ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
+</verbatim>
+though of course it could be eth0, eth2, wlan0 etc (to help google with this error message!)
There is a good how-to for Ubuntu here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx
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+Some keywords for search engine: bcmwl5 bcm43xx broadcom 4306 4318
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