Chris Ruprecht wrote:
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:18 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote:
Chris Ruprecht wrote:
Hello all,
I recently got an HP dv9000 CTO laptop and finally managed to get FC5
x86_64 installed.
The wired NIC is working, the wireless isn't, the sound isn't and the
webcam isn't either. I haven't tried the FireWire stuff yet, so not
sure if that works, but that's no priority (neither are sound and
webcam, the wireless stuff is though).
Some digging around on the web took me to bcm43xx-fwcutter and I
followed the instructions, but the card doesn't show up in the device
list to select (there is only 'Other'). Of course, there is a driver
for the Windows side, but with an 80 GB drive, there is no space for
Windows. If I need to install windows elsewhere and install the
broadcom driver to extract the firmware, I can do that - question is:
will the extraction part work for anything else than the wl_apsta.o file?
I'm dropping the output of lspci in here, it hasn't helped me a bit:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
(rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio
(rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configur
ation
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device
0398 (rev a1)
04:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
04:05.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host
Adapter (rev 19)
04:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
04:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
Adapter (rev 0a)
04:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller
(rev 05)
Best regards,
Chris
The new support for the broadcom chipsets is like this:
When you boot your system and do ifconfig -a does it show?
If yes, then use the cutter to extract the firmware and you are set.
If NO
You are stuck with ndiswrapper for now.
Simple as that.
Also, the 2.6.17 kernel has only limited support for the card reader you
have. It will do MMC, but not SD yet.
Thanks Phil,
I have not tried my luck with the ndiswrapper, that looked like a ton of
work when I last looked at it ;). And no, the card doesn't show up in
ifconfig -a.
I could go and get myself an Intel 3945 a/b/g mini PCI card, I believe
that would fit into the slot where the broadcom card is located. Any
support for that puppy? I'd loose bluetooth support, but I have yet to
find a use for it anyway.
Thanks,
Chris
enable the livna repos if you have not already:
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
will do it
Then:
yum install kmod-ndiswrapper
Then:
insert driver cd
cd /media/whatever/Whatever (probably something like drivers/XP) where the .inf file is
Then:
ndiswrapper -i whatever.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper
system-config-network
or
if you are running NetworkManager just restart it.
easy peasy
