1. Fedora 10 and 11 use the following commands:
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su -
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yum install b43-fwcutter wget
o when you are asked "Is this ok [y/N]:" answer "Y" (and press "Enter)
o Now you have installed b43-fwcutter tool for extracting firmware from windows driver and download tool called wget. Now you need to download windows driver.
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wget
http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/br ... .0.tar.bz2 o Now decompress, extract and copy firmware to /lib/firmware directory.
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tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
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cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod"
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b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta.o
2. openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 use the following command:
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sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
3. in latest versions of Ubuntu (all flavors) and Debian just need to install the b43-fwcutter package:
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sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
o when you are asked "Fetch and install firmware?" answer "Yes" (just press "Enter)
4. Gentoo systems supply a pre-compiled binary for b43-fwcutter. You need to "emerge b43-fwcutter", and then follow the instructions below to download the Broadcom driver. The line that invokes b43-fwcutter will need to be changed to execute the program emerged above.
5. Mandriva's graphical network card configuration tool, drakconnect, will extract the firmware from the Broadcom driver, which must be downloaded before configuring the card. For versions through 2008 Spring, you will need the V3 driver described below. Beginning with 2009, you will need either the V3 or V4 driver depending on whether your device uses b43legacy or b43. Either the wget command below, or a browser download will get the appropriate file.
Note: If you cannot use your distribution's packages, you need to have a compiler and headers for libc installed. The reason for this requirement is that you will have to build fwcutter.
