Monday, August 9, 2010

BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller

[ 2867.512848] firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[ 2867.533778] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found or load failed.
[ 2867.533790] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the latest firmware (version 4).

If you see this, simply follow instructions from:

http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx#b43andb43legacy

$ sudo aptitude install b43-fwcutter wireless-tools
$ sudo modprobe b4

You should then see in dmesg:

[ 2989.676732] input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input43
[ 2989.712889] firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[ 2989.782452] firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
[ 2989.833275] firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
[ 2989.889185] firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
[ 2990.092695] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
[ 2992.174225] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 2992.174256] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 2992.174282] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 2992.225487] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

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