On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:15:57AM -0500, Derick Centeno wrote: > Is it just me or has anyone not realized that the wireless > application within YDL 6.1 doesn't see standard WEP broadcasts from a > router or recognize Airport Extreme? Wasn't that supposed to be > integrated someplace? We are out of beta, yes?
I noticed similar problems with kernels >= 2.6.25 and YDL6. Looking at some information in dmesg I went to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 It appears there are changes in the wireless drivers for kernels >= 2.6.25. I followed the steps in that information (very briefly) (i) download and compile b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2 (ii) download broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz run the b43-fwcutter program to extract the firmware. (iii) copy the firmware to /usr/lib/b43 ls -agsl /lib/firmware/b43/ total 332 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 Nov 8 21:49 ./ 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root 4096 Nov 2 12:55 ../ 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 18 Nov 8 21:48 a0g0bsinitvals4.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 a0g0bsinitvals5.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 a0g0bsinitvals9.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2680 Nov 8 21:48 a0g0initvals4.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1840 Nov 8 21:48 a0g0initvals5.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2002 Nov 8 21:48 a0g0initvals9.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 a0g1bsinitvals13.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 a0g1bsinitvals5.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 a0g1bsinitvals9.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2080 Nov 8 21:48 a0g1initvals13.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1840 Nov 8 21:48 a0g1initvals5.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2002 Nov 8 21:48 a0g1initvals9.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 b0g0bsinitvals13.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 18 Nov 8 21:48 b0g0bsinitvals4.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 b0g0bsinitvals5.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 b0g0bsinitvals9.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2080 Nov 8 21:48 b0g0initvals13.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2680 Nov 8 21:48 b0g0initvals4.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1840 Nov 8 21:48 b0g0initvals5.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2002 Nov 8 21:48 b0g0initvals9.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 lp0bsinitvals13.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 lp0bsinitvals14.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 lp0bsinitvals15.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 3618 Nov 8 21:48 lp0initvals13.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2064 Nov 8 21:48 lp0initvals14.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2052 Nov 8 21:48 lp0initvals15.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 n0absinitvals11.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 158 Nov 8 21:48 n0bsinitvals11.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2100 Nov 8 21:48 n0initvals11.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1320 Nov 8 21:48 pcm4.fw 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1320 Nov 8 21:48 pcm5.fw 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 29864 Nov 8 21:48 ucode11.fw 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 32232 Nov 8 21:48 ucode13.fw 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 31384 Nov 8 21:48 ucode14.fw 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 30488 Nov 8 21:48 ucode15.fw 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 20176 Nov 8 21:48 ucode4.fw 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 22384 Nov 8 21:48 ucode5.fw 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 25160 Nov 8 21:48 ucode9.fw This seems to work okay for my system. I could not get any success with the previous method, the drivers may correspond to b43legacy or bcm43xx mentioned on the above web page. -- Stephen Harker [email protected] PEMS u...@adfa _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
