fiesty: 'hang' during boot (firmware loading or after)

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:27:02 +0200
Lars Hallberg <lah at micropp.se> wrote:

> This file (bcm43xx_microcode5.fw) dos not seam to exist. not in the 
> different kernel subdirs ether. But I'm not sure they are supposed to be 
> in the root filesystem, possibly they supposed to be in the initrd.img???

It is trying to find the firmware for a Broadcom wifi card - and it will
not, because the nice folks at Broadcom keep it a secret ;-)

To get the bcm43xx driver working, you need the firmware. The easiest way
to get it is to look at

http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/dists/dapper-cafuego/bcm43xx/

There is an edgy URL as well - but really I doubt that it matters since
the firmware is the same, of course, regardless of your Ubuntu version.
Grab the firmware deb and install it, then do " sudo modprobe bcm43xx " ,
and add " bcm43xx" on a separate line in /etc/modules to ensure that it
loads on boot ( even this may not be necessary, but it can't hurt)

i have a bcm43xx working fine on my iBook G4 laptop, using the firmware
debs as above. More information and links at

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

Note: you really do not need to use the fwcutter method - the deb I
referenced above works, and saves a lot of fiddling about !

Peter