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b43-fwcutter missing from Salix 14 repo?
Posted: 2. Mar 2013, 02:52
by Nate
Hi,
I had my wireless card working on the live cd (13.37), but when I installed Salix 14, is seems as though b43-fwcutter is missing from the repo. I followed these instructions: salixos.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_install_b43_firmware_for_Broadcom_Wireless_cards
Upon installing Salix 14, I did "slapt-get -u", and then "slapt-get -i b43-fwcutter", and this error was returned: No such package: b43-fwcutter.
Any advice?
Re: b43-fwcutter missing from Salix 14 repo?
Posted: 2. Mar 2013, 04:52
by jayseye
There is a Slackbuild, available via Sourcery or, on the command line:
Would that work for you?
Re: b43-fwcutter missing from Salix 14 repo?
Posted: 2. Mar 2013, 17:09
by Nate
jayseye wrote:There is a Slackbuild, available via Sourcery or, on the command line...Would that work for you?
Yes, that did the trick...thanks! I guess the wiki needs to be updated to reflect these changes; I would be more than happy to help with this. Who do I contact about getting a wiki account?
Here's how I got Broadcom BCM43xx wireless working in Salix 14:
First I installed
b43-fwcutter using
slapt-src (as per jayseye's suggestion):
Next I installed
b43-firmware:
Then all I had to do was:
And wireless was working!
See this page for more info on b43 drivers:
linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
Re: b43-fwcutter missing from Salix 14 repo?
Posted: 2. Mar 2013, 17:51
by laprjns
Now that slapt-src has limited dependency resolution capability its even easier. If you would have done
slapt-src -i b43-firmware first it would have automatically pulled and built the b43-fwcutter package.
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root[rich]# slapt-src --show b43-firmware
SlackBuild Name: b43-firmware
SlackBuild Version: 5.100.138
SlackBuild Category: network/b43-firmware/
SlackBuild Description: b43-firmware (firmware for b43 chipsets)
SlackBuild Files:
README
b43-firmware.SlackBuild
b43-firmware.info
slack-desc
SlackBuild Requires: b43-fwcutter
Of course this all assumes that you already have a wired internet connection.
As for the wiki account, join the mail list and ask there.
http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Mailing_lists
Re: b43-fwcutter missing from Salix 14 repo?
Posted: 24. Jul 2013, 12:56
by Aleph
Hi friends,
thanks for the solution.
Now Salix 14.0.1 is working on my old laptod HP Nx 6310.
Regards!
Nate wrote:jayseye wrote:There is a Slackbuild, available via Sourcery or, on the command line...Would that work for you?
Yes, that did the trick...thanks! I guess the wiki needs to be updated to reflect these changes; I would be more than happy to help with this. Who do I contact about getting a wiki account?
Here's how I got Broadcom BCM43xx wireless working in Salix 14:
First I installed
b43-fwcutter using
slapt-src (as per jayseye's suggestion):
Next I installed
b43-firmware:
Then all I had to do was:
And wireless was working!
See this page for more info on b43 drivers:
linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43