bcm4331 firmware installer package

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 22 grudnia 2011 09:45 użytkownik lina <lina.lastname at gmail.com> napisał:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/12/22 lina <lina.lastname at gmail.com>:
>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 2011/12/22 lina <lina.lastname at gmail.com>:
>>>>> I am still a bit confused. (First thanks for the links all of you
>>>>> provided, but I have visited those web before).
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the thing:
>>>>> BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n fit for
>>>>> BCM4331              b/g  HT (r1)
>>>>>
>>>>> What does the 802.11a for?
>>>>
>>>> Well, your card can operate in 5GHz band (frequencies). But I'm not
>>>>  really sure why you ask about this at all.
>>>>
>>>>  If you want to try experimental BCM4331 support you have to:
>>>>  1) Install kernel 3.2-rc3 or newer
>>> I have the 3.2.0-rc6
>>>>  or
>>>>  2) Install compat wireless
>>>>
>>>>  After that you've do install firmware (check for wiki howto for kernel
>>>>  3.2 and newer).
>>>
>>> after installation of the compat-wireless,
>>>
>>> from
>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmware
>>>
>>>  # aptitude install firmware-b43-installer
>>>
>>>
>>> Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:015-9) ...
>>> Setting up firmware-b43-installer (1:015-9) ...
>>> No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
>>> Unsupported device(s) found: PCI id 14e4:4331
>>> Aborting.
>>>
>>> I don't know which part is wrong here.
>>
>> Your tool is too old (support for BCM4331 is really recent).
> sorry, here you mean, which tool?
>>
>> Just do as I said and use howto for kernel 3.2, not distro-specific
>> howto. You nede to install b43-fwcutter and manually download file for
> I can't tell the difference. (I really need detailed instructions,
> thanks for your patience ahead)
>
> I tried to follow what you said before, with the kernel 3.2-rc6
> install the compate-wireless,
> but have problem in the following install the firmware-installer.
>> firmware extraction.

wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-015
make
sudo make install
cd ..

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"
broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o

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Rafał