| From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> [It is best to trim quotes: remove things that don't relate to your response.] | On Sunday 23 April 2006 14:17, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | >There has been some recent success in creating a native Linux driver | >for Broadcom 802.11g controllers. | > http://bcm43xx.berlios.de | | This one is interesting as I'm currently running the windows drivers | under ndiswrapper, and its working fine. But I would like to be able | to junk the ndiswrapper thing if I could. On this list, there were some more useful comments about this driver. Here's what appears to be the most useful message in that thread: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-April/msg05369.html Apparently it is included in FC5 but you need to get bcm43xx-fwcutter from livna and use it to get a copy of the firmware. I infer that the firmware is not open source so Fedora does not include it in the distribution. I see you were part of that thread, so this is old news to you. If you have only 4 days, this is probably not a good use of your time. | ... here is my conundrum: When I try to install the x86-64 | from the dvd on an HP lappy with an AMD64 Turion in it, the | installation takes a dump right after formatting the partitions because | it cannot find setup-2.5.49 on the dvd. I tried twice, with two | diferent dvd, on a +R and one a -R. Now I just looked at the dvd, and | I was able to unpack and view the contents of this file with mc with no | problems. | | So the $32k question is what happened? Do I need to add more options to | the boot line in order for it to work? I'm currently booting the x86 | install using "irqpoll noapic nopapci pci=assign-busses lapic". Sounds bad. What you have looks to be a symptom, not the disease. So what's the disease??? Perhaps even too many kernel flags -- they are not all harmless. After a certain point in the install, several of the consoles are going in the background and may have useful info for debugging. Have a look (CNTRL-ALT-F1, CNTRL-ALT-F2, etc). Very many laptops are tricky. Maybe all of them. It is best to find a community (mailing list, for example) of others inflicted with the same family of laptops. That way you can share knowledge painfully gained. I, for example, have an HP Pavilion zv5000z. I find the mailing list http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 and wiki http://prinsig.se/weekee useful. This family may or may not be include your particular laptop. | Or is there a way to convert an x86 install to an x86-64 install on the | fly? No, there is no reasonable way. | I'd hate to have to redo all the customization I've put into this | at this late date when I have only about 4 days to do it in. Don't do it! You probably have way better things to do with the remaining 4 days.
