need help with wireless net

[kcnewslackuser]

Hello I recently bought the slackware 13.0 cd distro and installed it and everything went fine till i tried to connect wirelessly to my router. I installed wicd but that didnt help it still says theres no networks to connect to. I then went into the rc.modules and uncommented the drivers to try to get one to work and saved the file but nothing changed. Can someone please help me set up my wireless internet the card is a Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[reed9]

Do you have the firmware installed?

Post the output of

dmesg | grep firmware

[kcnewslackuser]

I had to edit the message it told me i had to go to a website known as
linuxwireless and download firmware
dmesg |grep firmware
b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to (version 4).
b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to (version 4).
b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to and download the latest firmware" (version 4).
b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to and download the latest firmware (version 4).
b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to and download the latest firmware (version 4).
root@07B409050450:~#

[kcnewslackuser]

It says I need a driver known as broadcom b43 from that linux wireless site but when i go to the downloads section it has install instructions for other linux versions but not slackware so I dont know how to get it installed

[reed9]

b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to (version 4).

This would indicate you have a broadcom wireless card, not an intel pro card.

What is the output of

lspci -vnn
lsmod

[reed9]

Assuming you do have a broadcom card, there are slackbuilds available for b43-fwcutter and b43-firmware. Both are needed.

http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=b43&sv=13.0

[kcnewslackuser]

That is what it says I need now is there any special thing i need to do to get it installed and working. Im pretty knew to this linux stuff.

[reed9]

Slackware is not the easiest place to begin.

You need to install b43-fwcutter first and then b43-firmware.

Here are a couple of guides on how to use slackbuilds.
SlackBuilds.org
Adventures in Linux: How to use slackbuilds

[reed9]

Here's another good guide with screenshots.
The Perfect Desktop - Slackware 12 - Page 06 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

It's for Slackware 12, but everything should still be applicable.

[kcnewslackuser]

I got theb43-fwcutter.tgz and the b43legacyfirmware.tar.gz and the b43firmware.tar.gz files on the linux system and i have all 3 extraced to theyre own folders but how do i run them from there. Sighs this is making me feel dumb