b43 in Fedora 7

Ioannis Nousias s0238762 at sms.ed.ac.uk
Sun Oct 28 17:20:00 UTC 2007


David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 13:39 +0000, Ioannis Nousias wrote:
>   
>> I see. I thought b43legacy was for BCM4306/2 cards. I have a
>> BCM4309(rev02).
>>
>> I've extracted the 3.130.20 firmware now, but I don't have a b43legacy
>> kernel module. Isn't it included in the fedora kernel package? I 
>> reloaded the 'b43' one, but I get the same behaviour.
>>     
>
> Oh, for F7 I suppose you'll still want to be using the old bcm43xx
> driver. I was thinking of the rawhide kernel.
>
> Either update to rawhide, or alternatively unload the ssb drivers, load
> bcm43xx, and add your device's PCI ident to bcm43xx (as you seem to know
> how to do, but my preferred technique would be this
> in /etc/modprobe.d/bcm43xx):
>
> install pci:v000014E4d00004324sv*sd*bc*sc*i* /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install bcm43xx && echo "14e4 4324" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcm43xx/new_id
>
>   
ok, I'll wait for F8 to come out then. bcm43xx wasn't working well for me.


thanks




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