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Code:

# lspci | grep -i net

00:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

Code:

$ lsmod | grep b43

b43                  319167  0 

mac80211              202703  1 b43

cfg80211              145277  2 mac80211,b43

ssb                    41404  1 b43

mmc_core              69202  2 ssb,b43

pcmcia                31533  2 ssb,b43

Code:

# dmesg | grep -i firmware

[  30.736154] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)

Working great here, installed b43-fwcutter from slackbuilds:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.../b43-fwcutter/

Code:

$ b43-fwcutter --help

b43-fwcutter version 015



A tool to extract firmware for a Broadcom 43xx device

from a proprietary Broadcom 43xx device driver file.



Usage: b43-fwcutter [OPTION] [proprietary-driver-file]

  --unsupported        Allow working on extractable but unsupported drivers

  -l|--list            List supported driver versions

  -i|--identify        Only identify the driver file (don't extract)

  -w|--target-dir DIR  Extract and write firmware to DIR

  -v|--version          Print b43-fwcutter version

  -h|--help            Print this help



Example: b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o

        to extract the firmware blobs from wl_apsta.o and store

        the resulting firmware in /lib/firmware

Using wicd from /extra

Things are running great on 13.37. I think I know what went wrong with 14 so im going to add another partion and install it tonight to see if I can get it to work this time around. I'll post back and title this solved when I'm done.

I had a similar problem to the one above. I have a x31 laptop. It is pretty old and the smp kernels don't work,just generic. I am running slackware-current (14+) 32-bit with 3.7.1. I was getting the exec format error when trying to insert the broadcom-wl driver I compiled with the mods from the fedora forum (erase line 43 with asm header include from the wl-linux.c file & change .ndo_set_multicast_list to .ndo_set_rx_mode). The compile seemed to work but the module wouldn't insert with that exec format error. I guessed that since the linux headers & source were smp broadcom-wl was compiling for an smp kernel,and this was a problem, so I compiled a custom 3.7.3 kernel from source using alienbob's howto and makeoldconfig with the 3.7.1-generic slackware config. I rebooted and recompiled wl, and this time no problem inserting or using it. This was important to me since I have a dual band router and b43 doesn't support 5GHz band.

broadcom BC4321 PC Card on slackware-current with wl driver and archaic thinkpad

Accidentally posted this.