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The BroadcomWirelessChipset made by Broadcom is a one of the more relatively common WirelessChipsets available today. It is shipped by a wide range of companies.

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 like sudo bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware bcmwl5.sys where bcmwl5.sys is the name of your driver file (this is the most common one) and it will put the extracted firmware into /lib/firmware - you should change the owner and group to root.


CategoryWireless