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mereu au fost probleme cu WLAN -ul pe Linux, cu greu daca gaseai ceva care sa mearga 'out of the box'
pentru cei ce au un bcm43xx iata si solutia...destul de simpla

1) Instalare  bcm43xx-fwcutter

yum -y install bcm43xx-fwcutter


2) Download driver de la
http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2

3)Extrage din arhiva fisierele

broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta_mimo.o
broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o


4)Deschide un terminal(root shell) la adresa broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/ si scrie urmatoarea comanda

/usr/bin/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o


5) nu in ultimul rand asigurativa ca in Services- Service Management  'Network management' si 'WPA_Supplicant' sunt bifate...
6) reboot
7) daca totul a decurs bine atunci in /var/log/messages ar trebui sa fie ceva de genul

Jul 10 20:55:03 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  nm-netlink-monitor.c - nm_netl
ink_monitor_event_handler (724) netlink reports device wlan0 link now 0

daca nu veti avea ceva erori de genul:

Jul  8 12:12:23 localhost kernel: bcm43xx_mac80211: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
Jul  8 12:12:25 localhost NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan(): could not trigger wireless scan on device wlan0: Network is down
Jul  8 12:14:25 localhost kernel: bcm43xx_mac80211: Adding Interface type 2
Jul  8 12:14:26 localhost firmware_helper[4124]: Loading of /lib/firmware/bcm43xx_microcode5.fw for bcm43xx_mac80211 driver failed: No such file or director


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