On Wednesday 12 December 2007 01:39:09 Randy Cushman wrote: > 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, Yes. > 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. The driver stability is not related to the firmware. You have to use this firmware: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware > 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)? No. Use the officially supported firmware. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
