Missing your Wireless Drivers?
Well I might have just the thing...
The attached firmware is ready to use with Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, Intrepid 8.10, and Jaunty 9.04 (i386 and amd64), and probably many other operating systems. It is particularly useful when no internet access is available to use apt-get or the Restricted Drivers Manager.
These files are for the b43 and b43legacy drivers, (aka bcm43xx). You will need these files if you get:
ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found or load failed.
Installation Instructions
Extract the contents of the zip file into /lib/firmware/ - thats all there is to it, the rest should "just work". Fwcutter is NOT required to use this - these files have already been extracted.
Note: I provide these firmware files in good faith, however there is ABSOLUTELY NO SUPPORT from Broadcom, since while it's identical firmware to that provided on their download site, it's been seperated from the Windows driver and installer to make them easier to use on Linux
NOTICE: There is a newer version of the firmware than this, and for some models of wireless card this significantly improves range and reliability when in a place with hundreds of wireless devices nearby, for example a city
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| The Broadcom Firmware (zip) | 106.91 KB |
| The Broadcom Firmware (tar.gz) | 84.31 KB |
Comments
Mandriva 2010 BCM4318
Thanks a lot!
This instruction works wonderful with my Broadcom card 4318 on Mandriva 2010.
Thanks! :-)
AWESOME
thank you. this is great.
works with Suse11.2 and broadcom 802.11b/g
Thank you!!!
Thank you so much.... By any chance do you have the newer firmware ?
it's work thank you
it's work thank you
yaaaaaay! Thanks to your
yaaaaaay!
Thanks to your great advice, I now have my GF's acer aspire 3000 wifi going. thank you for providing those files!
Who knows how many hair pulling hours you just saved me.
Thanks!
This works on a Dell Inspiron 530 with Ubunto 8.10. Thanks for posting!
You must be kiddin' me! :)
I struggled these days a lot trying to make work an infamous BCM4311 module within Slackware 13. I use the instructions from http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 for broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5 but they don't work for me (not even without encryption).
But then, somewhere in the internet I found your site and make my day!
Replace the other firmware and voila, it works.
THANKS A LOT DUDE!
Thank you
You saved my life. Thanks for publishing things like these.
You are my star
I tried all day to get the fw cutter to work. When I was finally going to give up, I reached this page. I can sleep happily now. Thanks.
Thank you!!
Thank you so much. You can probably add Karmic Koala also to your list, I started installing Karmic Alpha 4 from scratch and ended up not having my wireless working. Your files just helped.
Finally!!!
I tried fwcutter, ndiswrapper and a couple of manual edits to a fresh default install of Debian 5.02. Nothing worked until this simple fix, then pow! Everything connected perfectly. THANK YOU!
-Dell Inspiron 8200 2.4Ghz Intel M w/speedstep
-Broadcom 4311 internal card
This has been plaguing me for two weeks (as a hobby, but still maddening.)
you saved me an hour of my life
thanks for putting up the files, at the moment, I have no way of using fw-cutter.
Mark
newer firmware
hi there,
any idea where the newer firmware could be downloaded from?
thanks!
re: newer firmware
Not sure if you're still looking, or for future seekers who have found this post, but the newest ones can be found here:
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#device_firmware
Cheers.