On 26/05/07, Georg Heinrich <georg.heinrich@gh-blue.de> wrote:
I get the following error messages about every minute on the console:
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed
bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2)
The HW is:
Apple PowerBook G4 12" (PowerBook 6,8) 1,5 GHz
Airport Extreme, Firmware version 405.1 (3.90.34.0.p18)
This means that your machine has broadcom wireless card and normally this will not work without ndiswrapper. First as root (or sudo) edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add at the bottom on a line by itself: blacklist bcm43xx This will ensure that next time around when you boot the machine this driver will not be loaded. Now you need to download ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper utilities. You will also need to download and extract in to a directory the windows driver for your card and then use ndiswrapper to install this driver for wireless to work. HTH -- Regards, Sudev Barar