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List:       mandrake-newbie
Subject:    RE: [newbie] Wireless network card problems....
From:       "Jim Langlois" <james_s_langlois () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2007-01-30 2:09:01
Message-ID: BAY120-F36FE8CF5E0A99ABAE02BBBD1A60 () phx ! gbl
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>From: "Jim Langlois" <james_s_langlois@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org
>To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org
>Subject: [newbie] Wireless network card problems....
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:47:41 -0500
>
>I installed Mandriva 2007.0 on my laptop a couple weeks ago. Im having 
>troubles getting it working with my wireless network card. When I go to 
>wireless it tells me
>
>"Some packages (bcm43xx-firmware) are required but aren't available.These 
>packages can be found in Mandriva Club or in Mandriva commercial releases.
>
>Info:
>due to missing /lib/firmware/bcm43xx_microcode*.fw
>
>The required files can also be installed from this URL:
>http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/"
>
>So I installed the bcm43xx-fwcutter... Then I went and got the wl_apsta.o 
>file and Im getting this
>"Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by 
>bcm43xx-fwcutter.
>I can't find the MD5sum c05d7371efb4e33d1e7729ffd310e3f3"
>error when I do bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o. So I went on 
>the BCM users IRC chan and someone told me that my file is getting 
>corrupted on download, so Ive downloaded it about 10times and I keep 
>getting the same error but with a different MD5sum number... anyone have 
>any idea??




Got it working... I used wget in terminal to download the file and it got a 
good MD5sum and it installed fine finally...thanks anyway...

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