Larry, I think there's a confusion here.
The web page says:

"1. Download the appropriate driver listed above. Note that b43 needs V4 
firmware, b43legacy and bcm43xx need V3. For V4 firmware, you will also 
need to untar the downloaded file. "


Now, I downloaded the firmware for V3 which is (wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o) 
and to install it I needed bcm43xx-fwcutter based on what the webpage says.
The command in my previous post, shows that I have used V3 to install 
the firmware.
I don't understand what I am doing wrong.





Larry Finger wrote:
> Mansour wrote:
>   
>> I am still unable to get it to work.  That's what I did :
>> downloaded the firmware for version 3 from 
>> http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
>> Then I compiled and installed 
>> http://linuxwireless.org/download/bcm43xx/fwcutter/bcm43xx-fwcutter.tar.bz2
>>
>> Then I installed the extracte using the command:
>>
>> bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
>>
>> now that's what I getting:
>> dmesg | tail -n 11
>>
>> IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
>> sit0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
>> b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
>> b43-phy0 ERROR: YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO OLD. Firmware from binary drivers 
>> older than version 4.x is unsupported. You must upgrade your firmware files.
>> b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
>> b43-phy0 ERROR: Microcode not responding
>> b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
>> b43-phy0 ERROR: YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO OLD. Firmware from binary drivers 
>> older than version 4.x is unsupported. You must upgrade your firmware files.
>> b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
>> b43-phy0 ERROR: Microcode not responding
>> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>>     
>
> Between the previous message and this one, you switched from bcm43xx to b43. 
> The b43 driver needs V4
> firmware that is installed with b43-fwcutter, not bcm43xx-fwcutter. That is 
> explained on the web
> site you were given earlier.
>
> Larry
>
>
>
>   

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