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Re: Upgrade to f7 breaks bcm43xx module

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On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:11:51PM -0500, John H. wrote:
> bcm43xx mac80211:
> YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO OLD. Firmware from binary drivers older than
> version 4.x is unsupported. You must upgrade your firmware files.
> 
> I get that now with f7 and 2.6.21 and didn't with fc6 2.6.20.
> 
> However, I read that the error is not what it sounds like.  What is
> the solution?

You might start by posting on a Fedora list, lest ye draw the ire of
any other distro users on this list... :-)

In the meantime, I suggest you extract firmware[1] from the wl_apsta.o
file in this archive:

	http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2

Hth!

John

[1] Using bcm43xx-fwcutter, of course.
-- 
John W. Linville
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