Re: [BLUG] help desperately needed for wireless on Debian

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Loren Serfass
<lorenserfass331@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     Tonight I took off ndiswrapper and reinstalled b43-fwcutter.
>> Now, when I do "b43-fwcutter -i" (asking for information, not
>> extracting the driver) on every file from the CD that looks like it
>> might contain a driver, I get this:
>> Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter.
>> This file has an unknown MD5sum ad6d6894b48c702efcd8d85535e82777.
>
> ...Same for bcm43xx-fwcutter (at least the one from synaptic).

The CD-Rom likely has either a self-installer, a self-extracting ZIP
file, or CAB files. All of these need to be decompressed before the
cutter can find the firmware.

"cabextract" can extract CAB files.

"unzip" can extract ZIP files, as well as self-extracting zip files.

"orange" (which I've not used) can extract CAB files from
self-extracting installers.

It looks like "orange" will automatically deal with "unzip" and "cabextract".

Ultimately, you'll be looking for a ".SYS" file, this will be the
Windows driver.

Cheers,
Steven Black

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