Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 22:49, David G. Miller wrote: >> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Greetings; >>> >>> Getting curious (yeah I know, it finally killed that famous cat for >>> the 9th time) I was wandering around in the lib/modules tree after >>> the 2096 kernel had been installed, and low, and behold even, there >>> sits a driver module for the bcm43xx broadcom chips. Its in: >>> >>> /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bc >>> m43xx.ko >>> >>> Ok, fireing off the network settings utility in kde, I was going to >>> try and setup a new network port as eth1, but I find that the only >>> driver listed with a broadcom name in it is for the 'tigon', >>> whatever that might be. >>> >>> Now, I'd like to get rid of the ndiswrapper stuff on general >>> principles, so where, and how, can I make the above driver available >>> for linux to use? What contains the list of drivers thats available >>> for this utility, and which I might be able to add this driver too? >>> >>> I might add that I have the system-config-network screen open and >>> displaying the list of available drivers, but a perusal of the output >>> of lsof -c system-config-ne isn't showing me any likely candidates. >>> >>> Thanks for any clues. >> All I can come up with is a link to the development web site: >> http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ and lots of posts from people having >> trouble making it work. Sounds like the README may have some >> detailed instructions involving the Windows firmware. You may need >> to pull down the source just to get the instructions. >> >> Too bad you didn't post a week or do ago. I'm going to be needing a >> working laptop for the next several days so I'm a little reluctant to >> play with this at the moment. Hopefully will have the laptop (and me) >> available for experiments in a week or so. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave > > Yes, I found that link and bookmarked it on the lappy so when I get > there, and have time to breath, I may see if I can get lucky. In the > meantime I appear to have ndiswrapper working fairly well. I note the > real winderz driver is about 2x that ones size, so I'm wondering if its > all there yet. OTOH, this does tend to look like a > system-config-network problem, so I'll keep doing updates on a daily > basis to see if it gets fixed in the future. I just got my Broadcom wireless working. I have a Dell TrueMobile 1180 mini PCI card which uses the Broadcom 4301 chip. What I needed to do was install bcm43xx-fwcutter from Fedora Extras and follow the instructions in the README file. In effect, get my hands on a Windows driver (I wasn't able to use the one that came with my system, a Dell Inspiron 8200, but I was able to use one of the Dell ones mentioned in the README which I extracted using Wine), and point bcm43xx-fwcutter to it. -- Sjoerd Mullender
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