[ydl-gen] Wicd or whatever...

[Stephen Harker]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:15:57AM -0500, Derick Centeno wrote:
> Is it just me or has anyone not realized that the wireless  
> application within YDL 6.1 doesn't see standard WEP broadcasts from a  
> router or recognize Airport Extreme?  Wasn't that supposed to be  
> integrated someplace?  We are out of beta, yes?

I noticed similar problems with kernels >= 2.6.25 and YDL6.  Looking
at some information in dmesg I went to 

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

It appears there are changes in the wireless drivers for kernels >=
2.6.25. I followed the steps in that information (very briefly)

(i) download and compile b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2

(ii) download broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz run the b43-fwcutter
program to extract the firmware.

(iii) copy the firmware to /usr/lib/b43

ls -agsl /lib/firmware/b43/
total 332
 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root  4096 Nov  8 21:49 ./
 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root  4096 Nov  2 12:55 ../
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root    18 Nov  8 21:48 a0g0bsinitvals4.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 a0g0bsinitvals9.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2680 Nov  8 21:48 a0g0initvals4.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  1840 Nov  8 21:48 a0g0initvals5.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2002 Nov  8 21:48 a0g0initvals9.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 a0g1bsinitvals9.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2080 Nov  8 21:48 a0g1initvals13.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  1840 Nov  8 21:48 a0g1initvals5.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2002 Nov  8 21:48 a0g1initvals9.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 b0g0bsinitvals13.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root    18 Nov  8 21:48 b0g0bsinitvals4.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 b0g0bsinitvals9.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2080 Nov  8 21:48 b0g0initvals13.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2680 Nov  8 21:48 b0g0initvals4.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  1840 Nov  8 21:48 b0g0initvals5.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2002 Nov  8 21:48 b0g0initvals9.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 lp0bsinitvals13.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 lp0bsinitvals14.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 lp0bsinitvals15.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  3618 Nov  8 21:48 lp0initvals13.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2064 Nov  8 21:48 lp0initvals14.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2052 Nov  8 21:48 lp0initvals15.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 n0absinitvals11.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   158 Nov  8 21:48 n0bsinitvals11.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2100 Nov  8 21:48 n0initvals11.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  1320 Nov  8 21:48 pcm4.fw
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  1320 Nov  8 21:48 pcm5.fw
32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 29864 Nov  8 21:48 ucode11.fw
32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 32232 Nov  8 21:48 ucode13.fw
32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 31384 Nov  8 21:48 ucode14.fw
32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 30488 Nov  8 21:48 ucode15.fw
20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 20176 Nov  8 21:48 ucode4.fw
24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 22384 Nov  8 21:48 ucode5.fw
28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 25160 Nov  8 21:48 ucode9.fw

This seems to work okay for my system.

I could not get any success with the previous method, the drivers
may correspond to b43legacy or bcm43xx mentioned on the above web
page. 

-- 
Stephen Harker                           s.harker at adfa.edu.au
PEMS
UNSW at ADFA