Hello,
I was running fedora 9 on an HP pavilon and wanted to get my wirless card to work with b43, so i searched online for ways to to this and found the following:
"Using the b43 driver
If you need to use the b43 driver follow these steps to install the required firmware.
1. Download this file
http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources...0.53.0.tar.bz2
2. Load up a terminal window if you are in the graphic interface.
3. Switch to the root user by entering the command “su -” (without the quotes) and typing in your root password
4. Extract the contents of the file you downloaded by typing the following:
tar -xjvf /path/to/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
Replace the “path/to” section with the path to the file you downloaded.
5. We now need to use the b43-fwcutter tool. A standard Fedora installation already has this tool installed however if you don't have it type in the following:
yum install b43-fwcutter
6. Now run the following:
b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware kmod/wl_apsta.o
The above assumes you are in the directory that you extracted the downloaded file to.
7. Now type in following following:
echo "modprobe b43" >> /etc/rc.modules"
chmod 755 /etc/rc.modules"8. Reboot your system and hopefully you will have functioning wireless."
the full page can be found here :
http://www.linwik.com/wiki/configuri...rs+in+fedora+9
i tried the above steps and was only able to get as far as step 6 as b43-fwcutter wouldent extract the file, so after a few tries i gave up and restarted my computer. when the computer restarted i would get the following message:
Fedora release 9 (sulphur)
Kernel 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 on an i686 (tty1)
localhost login:
however when i try to log in as root or any other user nothing happens, i type in the user name and do not recive a prompt for a pass, it then goes back to the above state.
I do have data on the system and i wish to retrive it, so reformating is not realy an option.
Can anyone please give input on this situation, anything would be of great help.
Thank you
