On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 07:51 -0600, David G. Miller wrote: > > > Yep. You definitely don't have the firmware where bcm43xx wants it to > be. And: > > >Next problem... I am running FC4. It doesn't appear as though fwcutter > >is available in FC4, only FC5 and newer. And if I try to install > >fwcutter on FC4, I get dependency errors: libc.so.6 is needed. > > > >So is there a way to install 2.6.17 and use wifi without upgrading to > >FC5 ? Or do I have to upgrade ? > > > >Thanks. > > > You can get fwcutter from the main bcm43xx development site: > http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ and build it locally. It should build with > no problems. That will also get you the README I mentioned. fwcutter > is only used to extract the firmware; not at run-time. You may also be > able to find a pre-built RPM for FC4 at one of the non-Red Hat repos > like dries, livna, freshrpms, etc. > > I'm continuing to use FC4 and ndiswrapper on my laptop due to the WEP > authentication problem I mentioned in my original response. I'm > planning on upgrading it to FC6 once 6 is stable. Nothing against FC5 > but it will go to unsupported when FC7 test 2 is released which is > sooner than I want to have to upgrade again. I agree with not wanting to upgrade to FC5. I'm in the same boat with you there. I figured that building fwcutter locally would be the solution. Isn't open source great, to give one that option. In the meantime, I rebooted my laptop overnight and wala ndiswrapper is running. I believe it would be version 1.14, but I haven't checked yet. So I guess this problem is solved for now. I'll revisit bcm43xx when I upgrade to FC6. Thanks for answering my email last night. You saved me a lot of mucking around. -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
