wy wrote: > Hi, > I just joined the list. Recently, I upgraded to Fedora Core 6 from > Redhat 9. My wireless card works fine on Redhat 9 after I went with > Linuxant drivers. > With Fedora Core 6, bcm43xx-fwcutter is available and performing the > same function as Linuxant was providing. I was hoping this is an easy > upgrade.
Linuxant provides an entirely different function than fwcutter. > After 1 week, I still cannot get Core 6 to work with my wireless > card. Below is the message I get when I first try to use the original > driver that came with the notebook. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] r46482]# bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware bcmwl5.sys > Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by bcm43xx-fwcutter. > This file has an unknown MD5sum 208a33d5a52040b5401d48b8e974f901. > > This may be due to the driver version I have. This is pulled from the > bcmwl5.inf file. > > DriverVer=07/09/2002, 3.08.27.0 <http://3.08.27.0> > > I had tried other version of the firmware found in README.Fedora but > none of them works. Extracting the firmware works fine but it still > cannot activate the wireless card. > > Has anyone got TrueMobile 1180 to run successfully on Core 6? Thanks! Unless you send us the output of dmesg and lspci -v, we cannot help you. I don't know which chip is in your wireless device. Once I know that and the output of 'uname -r', then I can help you get started. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
