Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

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On 24.06.2009 02:57, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> 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.
>>>> 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? 

No promised, but I said we should definitely take this. It's just the
usual problem: Someone has to package it, submitt it for review and take
care of the package afterwards. But it's not that much of work for
someone that knows packaging and already contributes to Fedora or RPM
Fusion.

> [...]

CU
knurd

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