On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 21:45 -0400, sean darcy wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:17 -0400, sean darcy wrote: > >> I have compaq presario 714n notebook, Intel G965 chipset. wireless is > >> Broadcom BCM94311MCG mini-pci, which shows up in lspci. > > > > Broadcom does not make firmware for their wireless cards available in a > > freely redistributable form, so Fedora cannot distribute this firmware. > > Thus, it cannot work out of the box. You can generate a firmware file > > using the b43-fwcutter utility, but this doesn't help much for the live > > environment. Feel free to request that Broadcom provide freely > > redistributable firmware for their wireless products! > > > Well, would this work: > > I'm using live to install on a 20gig partition that already has windows > installed. > > Can I install f8 ( from dvd or livecd ), download the fw43-cutter rpm > under windows, use ntfs-utils to copy to the linux partition, install > it, and Voila! ?? Yes. > Is fw43-cutter on the dvd? Not as of test3. I just adjusted comps so that it will be on the DVD and the live images for the final release to help making this hardware a little easier Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
