- Download the latest firmware from the AUR
- You will be downloading the tarball (.tar.gz file). However you get the file, I put the file in /home/jbess/Downloads/builds on my laptop, but you can put it anywhere you want.
- You will need to connect your laptop via ethernet cable and either download the file via a web browser or wget in command line.
- You can also download the file(s) from another computer and put them on a USB drive or CD/DVD and transfer them to your laptop. If this is the case, you will also need the actual firmware file too. Download that from http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/. Locate the broadcom-wl-{version}_mipsel.tar.bz2, where {version} matches the version number found in the AUR package. At the time of writing this, it is 5.10.56.27.3-2, so you would locate the broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mipsel.tar.bz2 file. *Note: In ArchBang, I had to also download and install b43-fwcutter, which pulls out the firmware from the openwrt.org file.
- Unzip the tarball
- Using a console (command line), navigate to the directory you downloaded the tarball, and untar it. Use the command tar -xf b43-firmware.tar.gz. Now run cd b43-firmware to change into the untar'd directory.
- If you don't have a network connection and had to separately download the actual firmware from openwrt.org, put that .tar.bz2 file into the b43-firmware directory.
- Run makepkg
- As a normal user, run makepkg -s. If there are any dependency problems (and network connected) it will try to solve it or will tell you what else you need to install.
- Install the b43-firmware package
- As root or with sudo, run pacman -U *.xz to install the firmware.
- Reboot the system
- When you are up and running again, you should be able to follow the directions on the Arch wiki for managing your wireless connection.
The whole process is a lot simpler if you can have ethernet plugged in. Dependencies can easily be resolved, as well as you only have to download the one b43-firmware tarball from AUR.
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