On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Alexander Volovics <a.volovic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a Broadcom wlan 4312 [14e4:4315] in my laptop. > > After the latest kernel update to kernel-3.2.1-13 I decided to install > the necessary firmware heeding the following dmesg output: > > [ 82.515047] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode15.fw" not found > [ 82.515054] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode15.fw" not found > [ 82.515060] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download > the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all > instructions on this website. > > The website suggests downloading broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 if using the > b43 driver from the 3.2 kernel. > > I did that but then this happens: > > b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o > Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter. > This file has an unknown MD5sum e1b05e268bcdbfef3560c28fc161f30 > > b43-fwcutter in Fed 16 is version 0.14 and indeed the FW15 file supported by > b43-fwcutter version 0.14 has a different md5sum. > > The wireless.kernel.org site also advices using b43-fwcutter version 0.15 > but this version does not seem to be available for fed 16. > > Can this be the problem? It is the problem. That firmware needs b43-fwcutter-015; older versions won't work with it. I filed a bug [1] asking for b43-fwcutter to be updated. In the meantime, I built an updated version because I'll probably need it for one of my machines when it gets updated later: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3730189 -T.C. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784390 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
