On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 11:05:29AM -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 10:50 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > > One or both of us is confused... > > > > If you are using ndiswrapper, then it does not matter what (if > > anything) you have in /lib/firmware. I can offer you no support > > with ndiswrapper. > uname -r shows: > > 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 > > This is the "old" kernel where ndiswrapper works. When I upgraded to a > newer (and all newer) F6 kernels, ndiswrapper no longer works. First I > received error messages about mismatched versions of iwlist (or > wireliess tools). I've installed at least 5 newer kernels (keeping the > one that the wireless works). I don't get the original error message but > then started to get messages about firmware. (ndiswrapper was updated to > the latest version - I expected everything to continue working after > updating the kernels and other files). > > Will ndiswrapper work with the version 3 firmware under F8? Again, ndiswrapper doesn't use /lib/firmware. Those messages are not coming from ndiswrapper. Please forget about ndiswrapper unless/until you have actually tried using b43 on an F7, F8, or Rawhide kernel. The b43 driver requires version 4 firmware. Using an F8 kernel, the firmware needs to be extracted with b43-fwcutter. Once you install or upgrade to F8, the easiest method I can offer you to get this working is to download and install this package: http://fedora.tuxdriver.com/rfc/b43-firmware-download-351.126-1.fc8.noarch.rpm Then you will need to establish a wired connection to the Internet. Afterwards you can either reboot (presuming your wired configuration was configured with system-config-network) or run the following command (as root): b43-firmware-download I'm sorry, but I can't be confident that even the latest FC6 kernels will support your card. I also doubt that the rpm above will work on anything earlier than at least F7. Your best bet to get your 4318 working is to use a modern Fedora installation. If your 4318 doesn't work with the stock F8 kernels then you can always fall back on ndiswrapper, which I presume will still work (although I cannot support it). John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx
