newbie question. cant get fw-cutter to extract the firmware.

newbie question. cant get fw-cutter to extract the firmware.

[stephen mcgregor]

Hi everyone

I was getting dmesg messages re: you must upgrade to version 4 to get this to 
work. So I found the latest version of the (broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.2.tar) 
tarball, dated september 2008, and tried to extract the firmware from that.

my problem is that fw-cutter, as per the following messages, can't extract the 
required code.  It seems that version 11 is the latest version of fw-cutter, 
so no ability to change there. 

What should I do as a next step ? 

note that I could extract the firmware from the previous version of the 
tarball, but that I recieved 'upgrde to revision 4' dmesg messages.

I haven't included lspci or uname info, as I think my problem is simpler 
(stupider) than that. It seems to me that my question is about tarball and fw-
cutter compatability.  

thanks for any help

regards

Stephen


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--normal operation  --

prompt > ../../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" 
wl_apsta_mimo.o
Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter.
This file has an unknown MD5sum b6d32979ad3fdd8ce5c3ec806ebec757.

-- with the unsupported option --

prompt > ../../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"  --
unsupported  wl_apsta_mimo.o
Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter.
This file has an unknown MD5sum b6d32979ad3fdd8ce5c3ec806ebec757.


prompt > ../../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"  --
unsupported  wl_apsta.o
Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter.
This file has an unknown MD5sum 9852dda7680b95245e45f0769a26c00c.


--fw-cutter version --

/home/bench/systemMaintenance/wireless/b43/sept08/broadcom-wl-
4.150.10.5.2/driver > ../../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -v
b43-fwcutter version 011

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Re: newbie question. cant get fw-cutter to extract the firmware.

[Hauke Mehrtens]

You must just do what is decried at
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
Use version 4.150.10.5, version 4.150.10.5.2 is *not* supported!

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"
wl_apsta_mimo.o

--
Hauke