wifi, ndiswrapper and 2.6.17 kernels...

[Kim Lux]

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.