Does Fedora 7 support my wireless device?

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 16:16 +0100, John Lagrue wrote:
> ok....
> 
> installed the package and then used it to extract the firmware from my
> driver files for the XP with which I dual-boot. This is a 64-bit
> machine, so I assumed that I should use the bcmwl564.sys file. It
> extracted ok, but gave me this warning:
> 
> "This file contains new version4
> firmware. v4 firmware is _not_ supported by
> the driver in mainline kernels. For v4 firmware
> you need latest bcm43xx development version
> (wireless-dev kernel tree). If you don't know what
> this warning is about, use a 3.xx.xx.xx driver version
> instead to extract the firmware."
> 
> What should I do next?
> 
You're in luck.  The v4 firmware _is_ supported by the Fedora kernel
because it's using the new bcm43xx driver.  Simply copy the bcm43xx
files extracted by fwcutter to /lib/firmware, and you should be set.

Jonathan
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