Recently I retrofitted my older HP laptop with a "Broadcom 802.11b/g
WLAN" miniPCI adapter. The adapter works well with Windows XP. Now I
would like to be able to use the adapter with Linux.
Question: Is there any hope of using this adapter with a native driver,
or should I use ndiswrapper? Requirement: I want to be able to connect
to networks using WPA-PSK.
Complication: Neither bcm43xx-fwcutter nor b43-fwcutter recognizes the
latest driver I found at HP. I figure it would be best for me to use
this firmware because this is the only driver that I have found to be
stable.
Question: Could someone instruct a mere applications software engineer
on how to determine the values to insert into fwcutter_list.h to support
this driver (or provide documentation to this effect)?
Details:
- BCM-4306 -based adapter. Vendor 14E4, Device 4320, Subsys 12F8103C,
Rev 03
- HP driver SP36684.EXE, v4.150.29.0 (7/11/2007) (BCMWL5.SYS)
- unstable driver tried: v4.100.15.5
- openSUSE 10.3 installed bcm43xx-fwcutter and loaded modules bcm43xx
and ieee80211_softmac
Randy Cushman
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