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Post by Husse »

There will be an upgrade path. I'm not sure if it's going to be easy though - unfortunately
It is at least supposed to be full support for Broadcom in Daryna/Gutsy and I think that's right
You have to use fwcutter though, but it works
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for those of us who have no idea what you just said, what is fwcutter?
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fwcutter

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/uti ... x-fwcutter

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/searc ... x-fwcutter
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Sorry I should have given a reference to the wiki
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/MintWifi
fwcutter is something as strange as a tool that loads firmware at boot
The bcm43xx cards are "empty" when the computer is turned off and needs to be "filled" with firmware. Firmware is normally something permanently residing in hardware- another word is BIOS :)
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