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On Wednesday 12 December 2007 12:51:34 Randy Cushman wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow.  Are you telling me that driver version 
> 4.150.29.0 does not contain firmware "officially supported" by the Linux 
> Wireless project because no one more knowledgeable than I has gotten 
> around to adding its signature to bcm43xx-fwcutter?

The linux driver does only support the officially supported version.
Any other version might not work at all.

> Are you telling me that I need to temporarily install an older driver in 
> Windows so bcm43xx-fwcutter can have access to an older version of 
> BCMWL5.SYS to work with?  (By my reading of the source code, 
> b43-fwcutter does not recognize /any/ version of BCMWL5.SYS.)

Not at all.
You have to read the webpage. Here's the link again:
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware
Everything is described there.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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