On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:38:53 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59...@care2.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > 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. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Hugo Try installing the firmware-linux-nonfree package. ------ Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97
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