On 3/1/06, Alberto Patino <pato.lukaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2/28/06, Patrick von der Hagen <patrick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You are lucky, my Dell Precision M60 freezes as soon as the module is > > loaded and so far I failed to get any valuable information in syslog. > > However, bcm43xx isn't really considered stable, is it? So I just delete > > the bcm43xx-module after each kernel-update to avoid having it activated > > by fedora and stick to ndiswrapper> > Well, I have advances with the FC5 bcm43xx driver for my DELL M60. > > In the first try I downloaded from the Dell site the latest broadcom > driver. This firmware caused my machine to freeze. > > I read the kernel source Documentation/network/bcm43xx.txt and I saw a > list of drivers and versions. The first time I didn't understand the > version numbers associated with the http link. > But know I catch that the number is the version asociated withe the > particular drver. The dell newest driver doesn't match this number so > I looked up for a driver matching the version. (Fortunately I had > several dell drives stored in my lap) > > Well I had 3 drivers version from DELL, I remove the newest driver I > installed with bcm43xx-fwcutter and I reinstalled a older version > matching the one pinpoint out in the bcm43xx.txt file. > > Alberto P. > > Now I can scan with iwconfig. > > However i cannot do network connection yet with the wireless > interface, I'll try this later. > well, 4 nights I have the bcm43xx included in FC5 Test3 working. The weird thing is that I achieved this with an insolit procedure: I notice that getting the eth1 wireless interface up was only posibble when I was using the alias number, so I run the next list of commands. iwconfig eth1:1 rate 11Mb iwconfig eth1:1 ap 00:0d:72:7c:24:c9 route add default gw 172.16.0.1 dev eth1:1 route add -net 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev eth1:1 route add default gw 172.16.0.1 dev eth1:1 And now the driver is working. My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1: [root@amturing ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. USERCTL=yes IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY=172.16.0.1 TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=eth1:1 HWADDR=00:0b:7d:07:75:d0 BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.0.0 DHCP_HOSTNAME= IPADDR=172.16.1.34 DOMAIN= ESSID=2WIRE205 CHANNEL=1 MODE=Managed RATE='11 Mb/s' ONPARENT=no Now its time to test the newest driver from the berlios site! Thanks this is awesome! :) -- Don't be evil!!! -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list