From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "John H." <mistamaila@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Broadcom Linux <bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de>
Subject: Re: Upgrade to f7 breaks bcm43xx module
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:18:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070601181838.GB5663@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b9417770706011111u20f32192s960961dc8693f00e@mail.gmail.com>
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
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-01 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-01 18:11 Upgrade to f7 breaks bcm43xx module John H.
2007-06-01 18:18 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-06-01 18:18 ` Larry Finger
2007-06-01 18:23 ` John H.
2007-06-01 18:37 ` John H.
2007-06-01 18:55 ` John H.
2007-06-01 19:24 ` Larry Finger
2007-06-01 18:58 ` Larry Finger
2007-06-01 21:36 ` Michael Buesch
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