Bug#586441: b43-fwcutter does not extract firmware automatically after installation
Package: b43-fwcutter
Version: 1:013-2
Installed b43-fwcutter in Squeeze/PPC and it did not extract the required
firmware into /lib/firmware. I did it manually after downloading the
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2 tarball.
export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o
Then a reboot and my Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306
802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) worked as it should be. The
b43-fwcutter program should do this automatically after installation. In
Debian Lenny/PPC it works fine.
Regards
Jeroen Diederen
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