On Thursday 27 December 2007 05:29:21 am Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > Several weeks ago I posted that my Broadcom bcm4318 mini pci wifi > > card stopped working with Fedora 6 kernels after 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 > > in a Dell Inspiron 2200. I had used ndiswrapper and the error > > messages I was getting seemed to indicate that I needed new > > firmware. Apparently, this was coming from the newer native bcm43xx > > driver built into the newer kernels - not from ndiswrapper. No one > > seemed to have any clue what was wrong. I inadvertently discovered > > that the reason was that ndiswrapper needed the b43 driver > > blacklisted (in addition to blacklisting the bcm43xx driver) for the > > newer kernels. I found a mention of blacklisting the b43 driver in > > someone's posting on the Internet. > > > > I discovered this when I temporarily switched a hard drive from a > > different laptop (a Toshiba Satellite A15-S129) that had Fedora 8 > > installed without ndiswrapper. When I put the F8 drive in the Dell > > with the 4318 mini pci wifi card, I still could not get the 4318 to > > work with the native drivers (it seemed so close - but would ALWAYS > > end up causing the system to freeze while networkmanager was trying > > to connect). IMO, the native bcm43xx drivers just will not work with > > the 4318 in the Dell Inspiron 2200 under F8. (Maybe someone has it > > working and can prove me wrong.) Once I blacklisted the b43 and used > > ndiswrapper with bcmwl5.inf, the 4318 worked under F8 (and it works > > very well as it did before under F6, and blacklisting b43 under F6 > > also works with the newer F6 kernels). So at least I know when I > > install F8 on the Dell's own hard drive I will be able to use the > > 4318. > > well, now that i've beaten jigdo to within an inch of its life, maybe > i should go back and "cookbook-ify" my wiki page on fedora and > broadcom wireless: > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Broadcom_wireless_on_Fedora > > i haven't looked at it in over a month, and it may be that things have > improved since then. unless there's already a decent HOWTO on that > somewhere. john? > > rday > -- > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry > Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > http://crashcourse.ca > ======================================================================== Have you tried this method: http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras It worked flawlessly for me on a new HP with the Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02). Peter
