Re: Brodcom 43 Failing of FC8

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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
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