Using b43-fwcutter on Windows drivers

Michael Büsch m at bues.ch
Thu Jun 15 23:21:48 PDT 2017


On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 18:21:40 -0400
João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita at endlessm.com> wrote:

> We've been trying to do some binary grepping for the first 4 bytes of
> the firmware files in the windows driver (grep -obUaP
> "\x75\x01\x00\x00" BCMWL664.SYS), but although there are some matching
> occurrences, after that the bytes start to differ. Any other
> suggestions on trying to match the firmware files with windows
> drivers?

Well, then you most likely have differing fw versions.
Try to find other binaries.

> On a another topic, is there a license file available somewhere for
> the wl MIPS drivers? I've downloaded the Asus/Netgear tarballs that
> they were originally extracted from, but couldn't find a license for
> the drivers there, just a general release notes file on the top dir,
> and some un-related licenses for different projects used in the
> router's rootfs image.

I don't know anything about the licensing.

-- 
Michael
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