[ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy

[AlgoMantra]

wooohoooo!!!! wifi r0x0rz on Hardy.
My sincere gratitude to Onkar and Parthan for
helping me out with this.

Thanks a zillion, guys!!!

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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, AlgoMantra <algomantra at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I moved the path accordingly to have the .fw in /lib/firmware/b43
> manually,
> > but still no effect. I am copying my dmesg output here:
> >
> > Please advise. I think I need a different firmware, perhaps?
> >
>
> Yes, you are right. You need newer version of firmware.
> 1. The file to download is
> http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
> 2. Then extract this archive.
> 3. Inside this archive you should find a file
> broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta_mimo.o
>
> The commands to be used are
> 'sudo b43-fwcutter --unsupported -w /lib/firmware
> broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta_mimo.o'
> and then
> 'chmod o+rx /lib/firmware/b43 /lib/firmware/b43legacy'
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Onkar
>



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