On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:22:39PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 07:57:01AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > > Karl Larsen wrote: > > > > >> > > > Hi Mark. I am writing a paper about getting WiFi to work on Linux. Are > > > you certain there is no Linux software package for your laptop. Do you > > > know who made the WiFi hardware in your laptop? Have you been to the web > > > page with all the data? > > > > > > Karl > > > > > > > When I last looked (a year ago maybe) it was not supported. It's a > > broadcom card (4306), which, at the time, was supported 32-bit, but not > > 64-bit, which is what I have. That's why I asked about ndiswrapper, > > it's the only method I was aware of at the time that would work with > > this card and 64-bit. > > Huh? > > Try it again... Perhaps this was too terse -- I apologize. The 4306 part should be well supported on all platforms with either the new (default in F-7) or old bcm43xx drivers. Be sure to extract the firmware. I suggest running bcm43xx-fwcutter on the wl.o file from here: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 Be sure to either reboot or 'modprobe -r bcm43xx-mac80211 ; modprobe bcm43xx-mac80211' after extracting the firmware. I would be very surprised if your 4306 did not work afterwards. John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx
