bcm43xx_mac80211 (was Re: Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4 (6.93))

Miles Lane miles.lane at gmail.com
Tue May 1 21:35:57 UTC 2007


On 5/1/07, Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com> wrote:
> Miles Lane wrote:
> > On 5/1/07, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 09:13 -0700, alan wrote:
> >>
> >> > The network config tools need some work.  (Especially for Wireless.)  I
> >> > have been trying to get my bcm4306 chipset wireless to work.  The
> >> network
> >> > tools don't see it.  (And I have the firmware that I used on FC6
> >> with no
> >> > problems.)  The list of wireless cards in the drop down list seems very
> >> > old.  It needs to be updated to the currently supported list.  (As
> >> much as
> >> > wireless is at this point...)
> >>
> >> Yeah, you'll want to use NetworkManager to manage the device. First you
> >> will need firmware:
> >>
> >> 1) Install bcm43xx-fwcutter
> >> 2) Get a Broadcom-distributed driver to cut the firmware out of
> >> # See the list in /usr/share/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter-006/README
> >> # For the newer driver you'll need 4.x firmware. I recommend:
> >> http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
> >
> > I'll try this, but I suspect it won't work, because I have a pretty
> > old bcm4306 PCI card in my desktop machine.  Last time I checked, my
> > card isn't supported by the 4.x firmware.   :-(
>
> Works fine with the bcm4306 in my powerbook.

It probably still won't work for my card.  The card revision matters.

I found this statement online:
"> There is a revision number which is the key for v4 suppport. You'll need
> at least revision number 0x4 there for d80211 support. The older
> revisions 0x2 and 0x3 have to use the softmac stack."

My PCI card is a Linksys card with bcm4306 revision 3.
Gak!

:-p




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