On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:48:18AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:20:21 -0500 > "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Why did you "have" to do that? > > As stated above, I "had to do that" because that's the only way that I found to > make this wireless card work. > > > Did you consider simply installing > > the proper firmware so that the b43 driver would access the card? > > I spent most of a day searching for and downloading assorted firmware and > drivers for Broadcom wireless chipsets from multiple sources, running > b43-fwcutter, and so on. The only one that I managed to find that can actually > see this BCM94311MCG chipset is R151519.EXE downloaded directly from Dell's > website. There really is only one firmware to download for use with b43-fwcutter. It comes from openwrt.org: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 Extract that and run: b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o Be sure to unload ndiswrapper so as to not interfere with b43. Then 'modprobe -r b43 ; modprobe b43'. Does that work for you? If not, please open a bugzilla and include the output of 'lspci -n' and the contents of /var/log/messages. Be sure to CC me or assign it to me. Also, please make sure you are running a recent kernel -- please include 'uname -r' output in your bugzilla should you need to open one. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=30917 Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx
