On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > but those instructions are also maddeningly ambiguous since they tell > > me to figure out which firmware file to download based on what i read > > in a README file, which really doesn't nail it down, so i'm guessing i > > want the bcmwl5.sys file but there are dozens of versions listed under > > that title in that README file. *man*, i hate crappy documentation. > > To be fair, things are this crazy with per-chipset firmwire cutters > and whatnot because Broadcomm and others won't allow redistribution > of their firmware (even though you need to buy their chip to make > any use of it!). Maybe this bit of history about Broadcomm will put > it into perspective > > http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article2783216.ece > > Intel for example don't suffer from that madness with regards to > their firmware and the ipw2200 and 3945 firmwares at least are stock > Fedora packages. as we speak, i'm starting from scratch with a newly-installed and updated F7 system, and i'm going to document each step carefully. more coming soon. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
