fc5 & bcm43xx
Josh Coffman
josh_coffman at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 30 18:12:58 UTC 2006
--- Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:59:57AM +0200, Magnus
> Mor�n wrote:
> > Josh Coffman wrote:
> > > I'm being lazy cause I'm tired so I'm posting
> this
> > > without googling first. sry. Anyone know a way
> to get
> > > the bcm43xx driver (source or binary) for FC5
> other
> > > than grapping snapshots and compiling?
> > >
> > > thanks
> >
> > It is already included in FC5...
> >
> > Try this:
> > grep -1 bcm43xx
> /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-5/RELEASE-NOTES-en.txt
> >
> >
> > When I tried it (ie modprobe bcm43xx) on my Dell
> Latitude X300 it froze
> > my machine totally.
>
> that's why we crippled it so that it doesn't
> auto-load.
> There's something funky about the Dell's that the
> driver tickles
> in some way. The same behaviour hasn't been seen on
> any other
> systems afaik.
>
> Dave
>
> --
> http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
>
So I should be able to modprobe it on my pavilion
zv5440? I also read that there is some patching you
have to do to get it to work with NetworkManager.
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