wifi, ndiswrapper and 2.6.17 kernels...
Kim Lux
lux at diesel-research.com
Tue Aug 29 15:40:01 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 07:51 -0600, David G. Miller wrote:
> >
> Yep. You definitely don't have the firmware where bcm43xx wants it to
> be. And:
>
> >Next problem... I am running FC4. It doesn't appear as though fwcutter
> >is available in FC4, only FC5 and newer. And if I try to install
> >fwcutter on FC4, I get dependency errors: libc.so.6 is needed.
> >
> >So is there a way to install 2.6.17 and use wifi without upgrading to
> >FC5 ? Or do I have to upgrade ?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> You can get fwcutter from the main bcm43xx development site:
> http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ and build it locally. It should build with
> no problems. That will also get you the README I mentioned. fwcutter
> is only used to extract the firmware; not at run-time. You may also be
> able to find a pre-built RPM for FC4 at one of the non-Red Hat repos
> like dries, livna, freshrpms, etc.
>
> I'm continuing to use FC4 and ndiswrapper on my laptop due to the WEP
> authentication problem I mentioned in my original response. I'm
> planning on upgrading it to FC6 once 6 is stable. Nothing against FC5
> but it will go to unsupported when FC7 test 2 is released which is
> sooner than I want to have to upgrade again.
I agree with not wanting to upgrade to FC5. I'm in the same boat with
you there.
I figured that building fwcutter locally would be the solution. Isn't
open source great, to give one that option.
In the meantime, I rebooted my laptop overnight and wala ndiswrapper is
running. I believe it would be version 1.14, but I haven't checked yet.
So I guess this problem is solved for now. I'll revisit bcm43xx when I
upgrade to FC6.
Thanks for answering my email last night. You saved me a lot of mucking
around.
--
Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
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