On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:48 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2009/6/23 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200906@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > "Christopher A. Williams" <chriswfedora@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > >>> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > >>> > >>> This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you > >>> try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> This worked like a champ. On both machines. > > > > I wonder, would this shell script to wget the binaries and then > > b43-fwcutter them be the sort of thing that rpmfusion could package up? > > > > Having everybody navigate to a web page, figure out which of several > > code snippets they need and and cut and paste them into a shell window, > > sounds like the sort of thing that give linux its "user unfriendly" > > label. > > Havn't seen this on Fedora packages, but on Debian non-free there's a > packaged named flashplugin-nonfree, which has a script named > /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree that downloads the flashplugin > from the adobe site and installs it. > > Same thing could be done for b43 firmware. > > You could add a wissh to rpmfusion. Are we sure they would take this on? They are already carrying the Broadcom "official" drivers as the kmod-wl package set. If they did, they would have to make the two mutually exclusive and explain the difference between them because kmod-wl blacklists the other F11 B43 drivers. Still well worth asking the question though... Cheers, Chris -- ============================= "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
