On 2010-09-24 18:38 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I have 2 linux partitions on this acer aspire laptop. one has lenny and > the other has sid. The lenny one detects the wireless card fine. The sid > one doesn't. > > When I run: 'ifconfig wlan0 up' on sid I get: > > > [ 4424.513283] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found > [ 4424.515984] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found > [ 4424.518740] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and > download the correct firmware > for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this > website. > SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory > > > But I have b43-fwcutter installed on both partitions: > > ii b43-fwcutter 1:013-2 Utility > for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware > > I don't remember doing anything else than installing b43-fwcutter on > lenny but sure enough /lib/firmware on lenny has /b43 and /b43legacy and > on sid it doesn't so the firmware is missing.
AFAIK b43-fwcutter in sid does not try to download and extract the firmware anymore. You need one of the firmware-b43*installer packages (which one depends on your hardware/driver) for that. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871v8jgjos....@turtle.gmx.de
