Installing Wlan; Wlan Tools; Wlan Firmware - Acer Ferrari 3400LMi Manual

F8­x86_64 on the Acer Ferrari 3400LMi
However, with F8 the b43 kernel module is mature, stable and ready for
production. How to get the b43 kernel module to work is described below. To use
the NdisWrapper please refer to the FC4 version of this document, found at
http://ferrari.databa.se/3400/fc4/.

12.1 Installing WLAN

First we need to check and install some software so we have the tools we need.

12.1.1 WLAN tools

1. First we needed to make sure that the b43 kernel module is compiled and
properly loaded during system startup. For standard F8 kernels this is the
case, but if you compile your own brew you need to build it as a module:
# dmesg | grep b43
b43­phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
b43­phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 2, Type 2, Revision 2
b43­phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
# lsmod | grep b43
b43 150001 0
rfkill 14801 1 b43
mac80211 127949 1 b43
input_polldev 12113 1 b43
ssb 38725 1 b43
2. Next we need to make sure that the wireless­tools package is installed on
our system:
# rpm ­q wireless­tools
wireless­tools­29­0.2.pre22.fc8
If not, we need to install it:
# yum install wireless­tools
or
# rpm ­Uvh wireless­tools­29­0.2.pre22.fc8.x86_64.rpm
3. Finally we will need the b43­fwcutter package. Make sure that it is installed:
# rpm ­q b43­fwcutter
b43­fwcutter­008­1.fc8
or install it:
# yum install b43­fwcutter

12.1.2 WLAN firmware

4. Now we need to download the Broadcom driver, so we may extract the
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