Linksys Wifi card on Ubuntu 6.06

Have you tried following the steps at http://bcm43xx.spugna.org/index.php?topic=29.0 ?

Hi Dean,

Yes, and it goes wrong belows is a screendump.

david@minime:~$ ls
bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz Desktop Examples
david@minime:~$ tar jxvf bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
david@minime:~$ sudo tar jxvf bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Regards,
David

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 19:49 +0000, Dean Sas wrote:

> Support request #1449 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/1449
>
> Comment:
> Have you tried following the steps at http://bcm43xx.spugna.org/index.php?topic=29.0 ?

what is the output of "file bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz"

Is it possible the download was corrupted?

could be. I've downloaded the file on a windows machine and copied it to
the Ubuntu laptop. Still getting an errorcode although slightly
different this time.

david@minime:~$ tar jxvf bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz2
tar: bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or
directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I also unzipped the file with Winrar on the windows machine and copied
the directory to the ubuntu system. Then i fail at the the MAKE line in
the steps below.

$ wget http://download.berlios.de/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz2
$ tar jxvf bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz2
$ cd bcm43xx-fwcutter-003
$ make
$ less README
$ wget http://openwrt.inf.fh-brs.de/~nbd/wl_apsta.o
$ ./bcm43xx-fwcutter wl_apsta.o
$ sudo make installfw

bash: make: command not found

so somewhere i'm doing something wrong or the steps described above are
not monkey proof..

Regards
David

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 20:48 +0000, Dean Sas wrote:

> Support request #1449 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/1449
>
> Comment:
> what is the output of "file bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz"
>
> Is it possible the download was corrupted?

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Elrohir70 wrote:
> I also unzipped the file with Winrar on the windows machine and copied
> the directory to the ubuntu system. Then i fail at the the MAKE line in
> the steps below.
>
> $ wget http://download.berlios.de/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz2
> $ tar jxvf bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz2
> $ cd bcm43xx-fwcutter-003
> $ make
> $ less README
> $ wget http://openwrt.inf.fh-brs.de/~nbd/wl_apsta.o
> $ ./bcm43xx-fwcutter wl_apsta.o
> $ sudo make installfw
>
> bash: make: command not found
>
> so somewhere i'm doing something wrong or the steps described above are
> not monkey proof..
>

Try installing the build-essential package, this should provide you with
"make" and other programs you'll likely need to follow the how to. If
you can't download it from the Ubuntu machine, I believe it's on the cd.

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Hi :)

Did that, it worked (installed from CD). Did the rest of the steps as
described on the webpage. See output below.

david@minime:~/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003$ ./bcm43xx-fwcutter wl_apsta.o
fwcutter can cut the firmware out of wl_apsta.o
  filename : wl_apsta.o
  version : 3.130.20.0
  MD5 : e08665c5c5b66beb9c3b2dd54aa80cb3

extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode11.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval03.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval04.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval07.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval08.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval09.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ...
david@minime:~/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003$ sudo make installfw
Password:
if ! [ -d /lib/firmware ]; then mkdir /lib/firmware; fi
install -o 0 -g 0 -m 600 bcm43xx_*.fw /lib/firmware
david@minime:~/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003$ ls
bcm43xx-fwcutter bcm43xx_initval04.fw bcm43xx_initval09.fw
bcm43xx_microcode5.fw fwcutter.o README
bcm43xx-fwcutter.1 bcm43xx_initval05.fw bcm43xx_initval10.fw
bcm43xx_pcm4.fw Makefile wl_apsta.o
bcm43xx_initval01.fw bcm43xx_initval06.fw bcm43xx_microcode11.fw
bcm43xx_pcm5.fw md5.c
bcm43xx_initval02.fw bcm43xx_initval07.fw bcm43xx_microcode2.fw
fwcutter.c md5.h
bcm43xx_initval03.fw bcm43xx_initval08.fw bcm43xx_microcode4.fw
fwcutter_list.h md5.o

Rebooted the machine and now i get the wifi card as active in the
(admin / networking). However i'm sure the WEP info i entered is correct
i don't get an IP address and therefore no connection. Or doesn't it
support the 128 bit wep keys??

Regards,
David

On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 06:15 +0000, Dean Sas wrote:

> Support request #1449 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/1449
>
> Comment:
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>
> Elrohir70 wrote:
> > I also unzipped the file with Winrar on the windows machine and copied
> > the directory to the ubuntu system. Then i fail at the the MAKE line in
> > the steps below.
> >
> > $ wget http://download.berlios.de/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz2
> > $ tar jxvf bcm43xx-fwcutter-003.tar.bz2
> > $ cd bcm43xx-fwcutter-003
> > $ make
> > $ less README
> > $ wget http://openwrt.inf.fh-brs.de/~nbd/wl_apsta.o
> > $ ./bcm43xx-fwcutter wl_apsta.o
> > $ sudo make installfw
> >
> > bash: make: command not found
> >
> > so somewhere i'm doing something wrong or the steps described above are
> > not monkey proof..
> >
>
> Try installing the build-essential package, this should provide you with
> "make" and other programs you'll likely need to follow the how to. If
> you can't download it from the Ubuntu machine, I believe it's on the cd.
>
>
>
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