Karl Larsen wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: >> 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 >> > Hi John, are you sure this will all run on a 64 bit kernel and computer? > > Karl > I've had the same thought, I initially was told it would NOT run 64-bit. But I'm gonna give it a shot and see how it flies. -- Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
