b43-open driver missing

Peter Lemenkov lemenkov at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 10:31:55 EDT 2012


Hello All.

2012/9/10 Robert Dowell <bagdadbob66 at gmail.com>:
> While installing the ppc-x64 version of Fedora x86_64 on an IMac I got the following message:
>
> [27.045279]Error: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found.

You need to install b43-openfwwf package first (actually I though it
should be installed by Anaconda by default - now I'm not so sure).

> The only problem I'm having is the fact that when I get those errors the system freezes at that point and I use power it off and reboot.

This sounds like another issue.

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With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.



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