need help with wireless net

[kcnewslackuser]

Ok I have the cutter legacy and b43 tgz and source files downloaded now what do i do from there. Ive tried un archiving them using the utility that comes on kde when i click the file its able to extract them but they dont run after that so what do I do?

[reed9]

You shouldn't need the legacy firmware.

Create a directory in your home folder to house these.

mkdir ~/slackbuilds

And put the tar.gz files in there.

Then extract the archives

tar xzvf b43-fwcutter.tar.gz
tar xzvf b43-firmware.tar.gz

Enter the b43-fwcutter directory you now have and then download the source tar ball to there.

cd ~/slackbuilds/b43-fwcutter
wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-012.tar.bz2

Switch to root, make the build script executable, and run the script.

su
chmod +x b43-fwcutter.Slackbuild
./b43-fwcutter.Slackbuild

This will create a package in /tmp. It'll be called something like b43-fwcutter-i486-1.tgz, but I don't know what the exact name will be. Install with installpkg (still as root)

installpkg /tmp/b43-fwcutter-blah-blah.tgz

Replace with the correct package name of course.

Same thing for the firmware. As your user

cd ~/slackbuilds/b43-firwmare
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
su
chmod +x b43-firmware.Slackbuild
./b43-firmware.Slackbuild
installpkg /tmp/b43-firmware-blah-blah.tgz

Tab completion is your friend here. If you starting typing

installpkg /tmp/b43-firmware

and then hit TAB, it will complete the path, assuming that is a unique filename, or if you hit TAB twice, list options that match, if there are other files beginning /tmp/b43-firmware. (Which there shouldn't be in this case.)

[kcnewslackuser]

I am unable to use that method because the computer doesnt have net access in order to do a wget for the source

[reed9]

You can download the source packages to a usb stick and transfer them over to your build directory.

[kcnewslackuser]

I downloaded the source and the tgz files on another pc and copied them to the linux pc. I just need to know how to manually do it instead of through the net with wget

[kcnewslackuser]

ok i copied them under the cutter and b43 directories now do i extract them in there or does the program do the extraction itself

[reed9]

I believe the slackbuild script should take care of the rest. I don't use Slackware, though. Continue with my instructions after the wget part and post if you run into trouble.

[kcnewslackuser]

when I got to this part is said there is no such file or directory

su
chmod +x b43-fwcutter.Slackbuild
./b43-fwcutter.Slackbuild

[reed9]

You aren't in the correct directory then.

Make sure you cd into wherever you extracted the slackbuild tar.gz files. If you took my suggestion, that should be

cd ~/slackbuilds/b43-fwcutter

[kcnewslackuser]

no im sitting in that exact directory right now but it keeps saying the same thing that there is no such file or directory