On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 14:52 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Jeroen de Haas wrote: > > > There is a tutorial on setting up ndiswrapper on Fedora: > > http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/ndis-yum-livna . This text assumes > > you have configured yum to use the livna repository (which does contain > > the ndiswrapper packages) as explained in > > http://fedoramobile.org/solved/post-install-solutions/yum-config/ . > > > I have very mixed feelings about using Windows drivers for much of anything, > perhaps too many urban legends about an IRQ coming in while the driver is > running in a privileged mode. There are new Broadcom drivers coming in the > future, but at the rate I see progress that might be after the stock market gets > back to 14000. :-( > > An alternate solution, which I'm using, is to buy a USB wireless modem and use > that. Clearly not the optimal solution, but one which avoids the issues with > running NDIS drivers. > > Consider this an alternate solution, not a statement that NDIS is evil. Well, > Fedora doesn't include it for various reasons, but many people disagree. > > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > You might check the Broadcom website. They have released a native Linux driver that works for many of their cards. I used it in Ubuntu 8.04 and it works perfectly with the 4312 card in my HP 2133 mini-notebook. You will have to determine whether it will work with Fedora (but I don't see why it wouldn't). Rick B. P.S. If I could get Fedora 9 work with the HP 2133, I would likely still be using Fedora on it. It worked OK with Fedora 8 - but Fedora 9 seems to break everything and especially the LCD display - just CANNOT get a useable LCD display (but displays just fine on the external VGA monitor). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
