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wireless-tools package

  1. Bug #188282
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 188282

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gunashekar (gunashekar) wrote : Re: [Bug 188282] Re: hardy install alpha5 loops: broadcom: no firmware file

Thanks Jan.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Jan Frybort <email address hidden> wrote:

> Still doesn't work out of the box with Alpha 6 (live CD nor clean
> install). My Wifi card is Broadcom BCM4318. I followed the instructions
> on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware. I used
> broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 for my card. The procedure described on
> the above mentioned webpage worked and it created several files in
> /lib/firmware. Problem was that this directory was accessible only for
> root user. When I changed the right to 755 the wifi card started to
> work.
>
> --
> hardy install alpha5 loops: broadcom: no firmware file
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