On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:17 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > First, the issue that lots of people are having...if you are getting > the "YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO OLD" issue, I recommend that you follow > this procedure: > > # you need to be root > wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 > tar -xjvf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 > bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o > > That should fix things for most people. However, some people still > need/want to use the older driver even on devices that are (or should > be) supported by the newer driver. If you are in this situation, > I recommend this procedure: > > # save the file attached to this email as "bcm43xx-old-config" > # you need to be root > ./bcm43xx-old-config > > The internals of that file look a little hairy, so I don't want people > having to type the commands themselves... :-) Anyway, the second > procedure is ONLY for those who have completed the first procedure and > find the bcm43xx-mac80211 driver to be unacceptable. This includes > _some_ bcm4318 users and apparently a _few_ bcm4306 users. This should > keep most of you from having to use an unsupportable alternative > like ndiswrapper. > > Hth! > > John Thanks for the help with this posting. And to the others who followed up with the pointers to SELINUX. I was able to get my new shiny Lenovo Lappy working and I was _almost_ happy until I noted the tranfer speeds. I'm only getting 20 Kbytes/sec 2 feet from my AP on my wireless network while my Atheros based machines get 3 Mbytes/sec 50ft from my AP. Any ideas? Sean
