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gleble
July 7th, 2008, 01:45 PM
I am trying(like everyone else,it seems) to get wireless running on Hardy. Below is an excerpt from the output of dmesg. I says it can't use ucode5.fw . However if you look at the code below, it has been extracted somewhere. Is it maybe in the wrong place?

[ 49.358114] sky2 eth0: enabling interface
[ 50.539135] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 50.542532] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 50.542543] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[ 50.542628] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
[ 58.634020] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 58.634491] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 58.635035] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 59.204910] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input13
[ 59.267579] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found or load failed.
[ 59.267588] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 4).


neil@neil-laptop:/lib/firmware/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod$ sudo /lib/firmware/b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o
This file is recognised as:
ID : FW11
filename : wl_apsta.o
version : 351.126
MD5 : 9207bc565c2fc9fa1591f6c7911d3fc0
Extracting b43/ucode4.fw
Extracting b43/ucode5.fw
Extracting b43/ucode11.fw
Extracting b43/ucode13.fw
Extracting b43/pcm4.fw
Extracting b43/pcm5.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals4.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals4.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0initvals4.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals4.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
neil@neil-laptop:/lib/firmware/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod$



I'm hoping if I can resolve this wireless will work

chili555
July 7th, 2008, 03:27 PM
Did it extract to:/lib/firmware/b43/ucode5.fwOr elsewhere? Find out with:sudo updatedb
locate ucode5.fwupdatedb will take a few moments, so please be patient.

gleble
July 7th, 2008, 06:01 PM
No just lib/firmware . However, not sure why but I've got wireless up and running.