b43-fwcutter (1) Linux Manual Page
b43-fwcutter – Utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
Synopsis
b43-fwcutter [OPTION] [DRIVER]Description
b43-fwcutter can extract the firmware for your Broadcom 43xx hardware from different closed source drivers. The b43 driver depends on these firmware files and can’t work without them.Currently b43-fwcutter supports Apple MacOS X, Microsoft Windows and Linux drivers, but keep in mind that b43-fwcutter doesn’t support all driver versions.
Example:
- b43-fwcutter bcmwl5.sys
to cut the firmware out of bcmwl5.sys
Options
- -l|–list
- List supported driver versions
- -i|–identify
- Only identify the driver file (don’t extract)
- -w|–target-dir DIR
- Extract and write firmware to DIR
- -a|–alt-iv
- Extract alternative initvals (only 3.10.x.x)
- -v|–version
- Print b43-fwcutter version
- -h|–help
- Print help information