b43-open driver missing

[Larry Finger]

On 09/10/2012 09:31 AM, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> 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.

Robert:

Driver b43 only tries to load firmware from /lib/firmware/b43-open/ when the 
request for firmware from /lib/firmware/b43/ fails. As the open firmware only 
works for a very limited set of devices, you should concentrate on installing 
the proprietary (normal) firmware. The following instructions will work for 
Fedora as long as you have a network connection:

sudo yum install b43-fwcutter wget
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 /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o

Larry