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
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