[Grml] ndiswrapper solved

[Michael Prokop]

* Martin Yazdzik <yazdzik at nyct.net> [20060815 18:15]:
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 04:26, Michael Prokop wrote:
> > * Martin Yazdzik <yazdzik at nyct.net> [20060815 10:20]:

> > Just because of personal interest: doesn't the bcm43xx driver work
> > for you? 

> Idiot newbies on serious lists are at least amusing - sorry, but I am trying, 
> and here is where the issue ends, it seems:

> bcm43xx-fwcutter can cut the firmware out 
> of /mnt/sda1/DRIVERS/NETWORK/ADDON/BCMWL5.SYS

>   filename :  bcmwl5.sys
>   version  :  3.100.35.0
>   MD5      :  c3ab2d6954c7b5103770832a3a6a591b

> extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ...
> extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ...
> extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ...
[...]
> extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ...

> Apparently, the driver needs firmware to be extracted via fwcutter, and that 
> firmware is nowhere to be found, unless there is a repository somewhere that 
> I cannot find through google. Or, perhaps writing ever one of those files via 
> fwcutter -w might work?  Seems futile to me, unless  you think I should try.

> It is nonetheless amazing that grml allowed the problem to be traced this far 
> this quickly, irrespective of the immediate irresolubility, proving your 
> support to be still the best in class.

Maybe someone in #bcm-users on irc.freenode.net or at
http://bcm43xx.spugna.org/ can help you. Give it a try and please
report news to us.

regards,
-mika-
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