broadcom wireless under F7 -- the recipe(?)

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:17:52PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, John W. Linville wrote:

> > The Fedora kernels carry a patch to geld the PCI ID table of the
> > bcm43xx driver.  So, all that modprobing and blacklisting should
> > be unnecessary.
> 
> but i don't always use fedora kernels, i frequently use the latest
> source and roll my own, so i'm assuming i should still use the above
> in those cases, right?
 
I suppose so.

> and will that fedora patch eventually be pushed upstream?

Not as-is, no.  The future disposition of conflicts between the
bcm43xx and bcm43xx-mac80211 drivers is still unresolved.  FWIW,
the bcm43xx-mac80211 driver is still not in mainline kernels.

John
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John W. Linville
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