On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:02 -0500, Mike Leahy wrote: > Hello List, > > I've been discussing some problems I have with the bcm43xx drivers (for > wireless cards based on the Broadcom 43xx chipsets) on their users list > (bcm43xx-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). As you can see from the response to my > latest message below, it appears that the bcm43xx driver being released > with the kernels is not up-to-date. I have only been able to get my > wireless card working in FC5 by manually deleting the bcm43xx module > from the kernel, then (re)installing ndiswrapper. As the bcm43xx is > included with every FC5 kernel update, I have to do this procedure > pretty frequently, since I'm generally keeping up with the development > updates. > > Larry Finger's reply below suggests that maybe if the latest bcm43xx > source were used, this wouldn't be an issue. Is this something that > will likely be taken care of in the near future? I think it wouldn't be > a bad thing if this was updated, as there are plenty of people out there > with bcm43xx wireless cards on laptops. If it works out of the box, then > I imagine it will be much easier for laptop users that are dependant on > wireless capability (e.g., myself) to start using FC5 when it is finally > released. I did try to compile the driver myself from the latest source, > but the combination of my lack of experience with the need to reboot > into Windows in order to search/discuss issues lead me to give up on it > after a couple days. It appears to be an SVN pull from svn://svn.berlios.de/bcm43xx/trunk/driver on Jan 14th. 3 1/2 weeks old. And the softmac code appears to be a git pull from around Jan 13th. Dan -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list