Re: Wireless firmware missing

2012-04-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Roger wrote: > I started the install of b43-fwcutter and after using make it gives errors: > DEPEND dep/md5.d > DEPEND /dep/fwcutter.d > make: *** [obj /fwcutter.0] Error 127 > > What does this mean please? Instead of compiling the tool you should install it from the official Fedora repository.

Re: Wireless firmware missing

2012-04-04 Thread Mike Chambers
On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 15:57 +1000, Roger wrote: > I started the install of b43-fwcutter and after using make it gives errors: > DEPEND dep/md5.d > DEPEND /dep/fwcutter.d > make: *** [obj /fwcutter.0] Error 127 > > What does this mean please? Do you have gcc installed? rpm -q gcc -- Mike Chamb

Re: Wireless firmware missing

2012-04-03 Thread Roger
I'm fairly certain that laptop does have a Broadcom 43xx wireless adapter, but you can check with ’lspci’. There are instructions for downloading and installing firmware for that adapter here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Fedora > The Laptop wireless worked well in Ubuntu O

Re: Wireless firmware missing

2012-04-03 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
about my daughter's Dell 1545 Laptop - Fedora 16 fresh installation. > > I have been struggling with an error message from the Network Manager F16 which says Wireless --firmware missing. > Google is of no help, there is some info for Fedora 13-14-15 but this is cryptic, unhelpful and

Wireless firmware missing

2012-04-03 Thread Roger
. I have been struggling with an error message from the Network Manager F16 which says Wireless --firmware missing. Google is of no help, there is some info for Fedora 13-14-15 but this is cryptic, unhelpful and relates to a Broadcom modem.. We have a Thompson Gateway TG782T. The Laptop wir