Re: fc5 & bcm43xx

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:59:57AM +0200, Magnus Morén wrote:
 > Josh Coffman wrote:
 > > I'm being lazy cause I'm tired so I'm posting this
 > > without googling first. sry. Anyone know a way to get
 > > the bcm43xx driver (source or binary) for FC5 other
 > > than grapping snapshots and compiling?
 > > 
 > > thanks
 > 
 > It is already included in FC5...
 > 
 > Try this:
 >   grep -1 bcm43xx /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-5/RELEASE-NOTES-en.txt
 > 
 > 
 > When I tried it (ie modprobe bcm43xx) on my Dell Latitude X300 it froze
 > my machine totally.

that's why we crippled it so that it doesn't auto-load.
There's something funky about the Dell's that the driver tickles
in some way. The same behaviour hasn't been seen on any other
systems afaik.

		Dave

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