--- Patrick <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:12 +0100, Patrick wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:01 -0800, Josh Coffman > wrote: > > > > > > --- Patrick <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:28 -0800, Josh > Coffman > > > > wrote: > > > > > I was reading my daily news sites and saw > this: > > > > > http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12886 > > > > > > > > > > Anyone know anything about this? > > > > > I am grateful to ndiswrapper for enabling > wireless > > > > > broadcom under linux, but I would so love to > have > > > > > native support for it. > > > > > > > > Looks quite interesting. Thanks for the info. > > > > Any idea which svn command I have to use to > checkout > > > > the > > > > bcm43xx trunk? I would like to try it out and > if it > > > > works > > > > make an rpm. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Patrick > > > > > > > > > > development at: > > > http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ > > > svn command is on there. > > > haven't tried it yet myself. > > > > Doh, thanks. That was the easy part. The driver > needs the softmac > > solution from http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/ > Guess it won't be a > > quick make; make install... > > For the brave that want to try it. You can get a > snapshot of softmac at > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/ > It did not build for me on FC4 x86_64 though. In the > bcm43xx driver > directory you have to edit the linux version around > line 857 if your > kernel uses 2.6.15 kernel source but is called > 2.6.14 as is the case on > e.g. FC5t1 kernels (and perhaps others). > Please let the list know if you succeed and how you > made it work. > > Regards, > Patrick > I might be able to stumble onto how to attempt building; like a blind squirrel, I occasionally find a nut... Anyway, it would help if you could post a short howto or where to start. I create a dir for this, called bcm43xx. then I cd'd into it and ran svn to get the bcm43xx source which downloaded to a folder called 'trunk'. Then I used th hg command to get the softmac in the same folder and it downloaded to a folder called 'source'. I'm running fc4 32 bit on an amd xp 1700+ and kernel 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4. Shin zen ni rei -j Registered Linux user number 403109 http://counter.li.org/ __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com
