Pavel Roskin wrote:
Hello!
Thank you for being patient with me.
When I read that web page for the fourth time, I finally realized that
what I needed to do was forget about using the correct driver for my
adapter, and instead download an ancient driver for an unidentified
adapter from a website of unknown authenticity, and use the firmware
from that driver instead. Should have been obvious, I guess.
I have looked at that page, and I don't see anything confusing there. I
wish I could improve it, but I don't see how.
The firmware checksum is verified, so either you are getting the right
firmware, or you are not getting any.
There is no talk of choosing "the correct driver". Instead, the page
suggests downloading both firmwares rather than guessing:
Considered by itself the web page makes sense.
However considering how I process information, along with additional
factors, the process caused difficulty for me:
1) The bcm43xx-fwcutter man page and its -l option contradict the web
page, indicating that firmware can be extracted from recent versions of
bcmwl5.sys (include many versions 4.x) for use with bcm43xx.
2) Personal experience: The driver Windows XP found for this HP adapter
was unstable. This led me to treat as suspect any driver not obtained
from HP.
3) I had no way of knowing that firmware from any random driver would
work with my adapter.
4) I preferred using a driver/firmware from a trusted website over one
from an unknown website.
The above information led me to believe that I already had an
appropriate driver, so when reading the web page I repeatedly skipped
over the section discussing driver downloads.
I don't think any changes to the web page are needed. At the first sign
of trouble I should have read the instructions more carefully and
considered the possibility that there was a reason I was being
instructed to download a particular driver.
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