Manually setup the Broadcom wireless card firmware on Dell Inspiron 1501

These steps summarize the information presented here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware.

1. Download and extract the b43-fwcutter.
2. Download and extract the Broadcom drivers.
3. Compile the b43-fwcutter
4. Run the b43-fwcutter to extract the firmware

Run the following commands as root and then restart the network service:

cd /tmp 

wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-013.tar.bz2
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2

tar xjf b43-fwcutter-013.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-013
make
cd ..

b43-fwcutter-013/b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o