How to: Broadcom Wireless cards

When I try to ectract the firmware from the driver, it says

adam@adam-laptop:~$ sudo bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware ~/Desktop/wl_apsta.o
sudo: bcm43xx-fwcutter: command not found

Any suggestions? Any and all help would be much appreciated. I'm new to this!

Hi i have Broadcom BCM4312 wifi card, everything was fine until 4-th step when i have to extract the firmware
this is what i get :
root@ubuntu:~# sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware ~/home/a123/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_apsta.o
Cannot open input file /home/a123/home/a123/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_apsta.o
can somebody tell me what can cause this message? how do i solve this

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Originally Posted by theboss9999

Hi i have Broadcom BCM4312 wifi card, everything was fine until 4-th step when i have to extract the firmware
this is what i get :
root@ubuntu:~# sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware ~/home/a123/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_apsta.o
Cannot open input file /home/a123/home/a123/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_apsta.o
can somebody tell me what can cause this message? how do i solve this

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The message means that the file you are looking for probably doesn't exist.

Where did you put wl_apsta.o ? My guess is that you don't know what the ~ means or you mistyped it. (http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/man...ilde-Expansion)

Good news everyone! Broadcom has open sourced their wireless drivers.

I'm having the same issues and I did the below...

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Originally Posted by chili555

If it works fine if you issue the command, then it's healthy. Let's automate it:

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sudo su
echo b43 >> /etc/modules
exit

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Reboot, without the ethernet cable, and let us know how the wireless is working.

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After the restart it still did not work for me.

I did this in the terminal lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation and this is the outcome

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Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

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Originally Posted by WarrenSH

I'm having the same issues and I did the below...



After the restart it still did not work for me.

I did this in the terminal lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation and this is the outcome

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Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

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Simply do

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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

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in a terminal window :)