How to driver bcm43xx wireless Ethernet under Fedora Core 5

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How to driver bcm43xx wireless Ethernet under Fedora Core 5 

 

Summary:

Hardwar & Software: HP Compaq nx632x, Fedora Core 5 (kernel-2.6.22)

This article mainly introduce how to driver bcm43xx wireless Ethernet in the environment above

Step:

1) Compile kernel, download the latest kernel linux-2.6.22, and compile the kernel according to the hardware, the items about bcm43xx wireless Ethernet are mainly the belowing:

 

 

 

 

2) download bcm43xx-fwcutter.tar.bz2, untar it and compile

[Root @ myforever wireless] # tar jxvf bcm43xx-fwcutter.tar.bz2

[Root @ myforever wireless] # cd bcm43xx-fwcutter

[Root @ myforever bcm43xx-fwcutter] # Make

[Root @ myforever bcm43xx-fwcutter] #

3) download wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

Http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

4) Get the firmware

[Root @ myforever bcm43xx-fwcutter] #./bcm43xx-fwcutter-W/lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

The firmware needed by the bcm43xx is created in/lib/firmware

5) configure the wireless Ethernet

First of all, we shoshould install the management tool for wireless Ethernet

[Root @ myforever/] # Yun install NetworkManager

After the installation, We cocould configure the wireless Ethernet

[Root @ myforever/] # NetworkManager

There is a small icon at down right corner, click it and select the wireless Ethernet, do some configuration.