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linux-source-2.6.20 package

  1. Bug #85099
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 85099

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

In fact, this is no bug in bcm43xx-fwcutter and support has not been dropped for older cards.

The new bcm43xx driver, which went to Feisty, requires a 4.x firmware version.

In order to get one, download the latest bcm43xx-fwcutter from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4547 and look at the README. At the bottom, there is a link to a 4.x firmware. Get it and compile the bcm43xx-fwcutter version that you just got (the one in Ubuntu is too old) running make. Then extract the firmware via ./bcm43xx-fwcutter FWFILE and copy the .fw files to /lib/firmware. Reload the bcm43xx module (sudo rmmod bcm43xx && sudo modprobe bcm43xx) and everything should work fine then.

I'll try to get an exception in order to make the recent fwcutter version available in Feisty.