WGET Problems

[KeLa]

Actually 127.0.0.1 is the localhost that is a "virtual" network interface or in other word a build in eth interface or loop back interface. You can use it even if you have no actual network card available.

[IcarusR]

Could you use another box to access internet, search for & download missing file?
Then transfer file to other box with usb stick.

[KeLa]

Could you use another box to access internet, search for & download missing file?
Then transfer file to other box with usb stick.

OP has explained already that program starts wget to download file from net.

[coffeecat]

I think I have a solution. You have both the bcm43xx....deb file and the wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o file. Correct?

Put the .deb file somewhere convenient, right-click on it and choose 'Extract here'. You'll get a folder extracted containing the contents - control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz. Do an 'extract here' on data.tar.gz and you'll get a /usr folder containing /bin and /share folders. In the /share folder is yet another subfolder called /bcm43xx-fwcutter, and in that folder is the executable script install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh. The script in the version I downloaded consists of this:

#!/bin/sh

set -e

dname=wl_apsta.o
if [ -e /usr/bin/wget ]; then DL="wget -O $dname"; fi
if [ -e /usr/bin/curl ]; then DL="curl -o $dname"; fi

cd /tmp
$DL http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
bcm43xx-fwcutter $dname
mkdir -p /lib/firmware
for i in *.fw; do
        mv $i /lib/firmware/$i;
done
rm wl_apsta*.o

But check yours. There were a few versions of the bcm cutter package to choose from. In the /bin folder is the executable bcm43xx-fwcutter. So, as far as I can see, all you have to do is put the bcm43xx-fwcutter executable and wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o file in the same place, and do each command in the script from the 'bcm43xx-fwcutter $dname' line, adapting that to:

sudo ./bcm43xx-fwcutter wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

The for - done loop you could probably do as a 'sudo mv *.fw /lib/firmware/'.

As far as I can make out bcm43xx-fwcutter must extract a number of *.fw firmware files from wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o, which you need to move to lib/firmware. And that's it really.

[DeltaFee]

I did it and it extracted it, but I noticed its contained in a file which I can't seem to open even with sudo. so I moved the whole file in