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Fedora 14 and Broadcom 4312 Wireless Install on HP Mini 110

by on Jan.03, 2011, under Fedora, Networking, Wireless

ERROR: Firmware file “b43/ucode5.fw” not found or load failed.

Ignore drivers in /lib/firmware/b43-open and perform the following:

1. yum install b43-fwcutter wget
2. wget downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
3. tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
4. cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
5. b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta_mimo.o
to install all firmware into /lib/firmware/b43
6. reboot

HP Mini 110 Laptop should boot and come up with wireless functioning.

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