The fwcutter is just used to cut the firmware, you can uninstall it now if you want.
The expected location for the firmware is /lib/firmware/b43/!
If b43 really isn't solving your wireless issues then caitlyn has a help page regarding the broadcom-sta module that might serve you better [link].
I might do a slkbuild for this as well, I'll see what I can do if I get some time in the next few days.
problem setting up wireless
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justwantin
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Re: problem setting up wireless
B43 gave me no joy, however, I now am using wl.ko.
I could not get the broadcom-sta slackbuild to run on this nutbook but the same slackbuild and source ran fine and built a slackpack on a vbox salix install on my slack workstation. That install went with a default huge-smp kernel so I installed the 2.6.33.4-smp modules on this netbook copied in the huge-smp kernel to boot and edited my lilo.conf accordingly. Once up with the smp kernel and the broadcom-sta slackpack installed I had wireless working.
I haven't had this much fun since I tossed out the last winmodem :^) and maybe sometime in the future I'll see my way towards replacing the vesa driver with something that works with the paulsbo video chipset in the this machine LOL!
Thanks to all who gave advice on this thread.
I could not get the broadcom-sta slackbuild to run on this nutbook but the same slackbuild and source ran fine and built a slackpack on a vbox salix install on my slack workstation. That install went with a default huge-smp kernel so I installed the 2.6.33.4-smp modules on this netbook copied in the huge-smp kernel to boot and edited my lilo.conf accordingly. Once up with the smp kernel and the broadcom-sta slackpack installed I had wireless working.
I haven't had this much fun since I tossed out the last winmodem :^) and maybe sometime in the future I'll see my way towards replacing the vesa driver with something that works with the paulsbo video chipset in the this machine LOL!
Thanks to all who gave advice on this thread.
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