On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:04:24AM +0000, Dan Track wrote: > I've just installed FC8, having languished on FC5 for ages. Wow what a > difference, I'm really impressed. The only problem I have is that I'd > like to get my wireless Linksys WMP54G PCI card working, I never > managed to get it working in FC5, does anyone know of a godd guide or > process to achieve this? As root, run the attached script to install the appropriate firmware. You may need to reboot or 'modprobe -r b43 ; modprobe b43' afterwards. Hth! John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx
#!/bin/sh # # A hacky little script to get firmware for b43 and b43legacy devices # from the OpenWRT site. -- John W. Linville # if ! rpm -q b43-fwcutter >/dev/null then if ! yum install -y b43-fwcutter then echo "Failed to install prerequisite b43-fwcutter package!" exit 1 fi fi if [ ! -f wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o ] && ! wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o then echo "Failed to download v3 firmware for b43legacy drivers!" fi if [ -f wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o ] then if ! b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o then echo "Failed to extract v3 firmware for b43legacy drivers!" fi fi rm -f wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o if [ ! -f broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 ] && ! wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 then echo "Failed to download v4 firmware for b43 drivers!" fi if [ -f broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 ] then if ! tar -xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 then echo "Failed to extract v4 firmware source!" fi if [ -f broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o ] && ! b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o then echo "Failed to extract v4 firmware for b43 drivers!" exit 1 fi fi rm -rf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0 rm -rf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
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