b43-fwcutter-013-i486-1pw.txz + SLKBUILD for b43-firmware
Posted: 12. Sep 2010, 17:54
If so, then what would be the easiest (user-friendly) way to get it installed on SalixOS?Linux Wireless wrote:The Broadcom wireless chip needs software, called "firmware", that runs on the wireless chip itself during operation. This firmware is copyrighted by Broadcom and must be extracted from Broadcom's proprietary drivers. To get such firmware on your system, you must download the driver from a legal distribution point, as noted below. Then you must extract the firmware from that Broadcom driver by using b43-fwcutter (or bcm43xx-fwcutter) and install it in the special directory for firmware - usually /lib/firmware. Please note that the firmware from the binary drivers is copyrighted by Broadcom Corporation and must not be redistributed.
Source: b43 - Linux Wireless - device firmware installation.
I'd like to see SalixOS listed at b43 - Linux Wireless which will also help to gain more popularity amongst b43 owners.
The package b43-fwcutter-013-i486-1pw.txz can be legally published in the official SalixOS repository, and will be published if the SalixOS Team will accept to put it in, of course.
The most easy, step by step, way, for now, is:
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$ wget http://people.salixos.org/pwatk/packages/n/b43-firmware/4.178.10.4/SLKBUILD
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# slkbuild -X SLKBUILD
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# installpkg b43-firmware-4.178.10.4-fw-1pw.txz
On the other hand, if the process it automated, like the situation above, it'll be smarter to command the script to create a new folder (in the /tmp directory maybe) and to download, compile and install everything from it, and then all the newly created content will be deleted.
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* Since the file in question is not provided from a secured SSL connection (https://) then the best thing to do, imho, is to confirm the checksum of the downloaded file with a command like md5sum or sha1sum etc.