one more time -- broadcom wireless on f7
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Tue Aug 14 18:33:35 UTC 2007
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rick Stevens wrote:
> You say you plan to use F7. Great. First, do a full update on it.
> I wish I could tell you which drivers you need, but without the
> output of "lspci -v" relating to your NIC, I can't tell. It's
> generally either the bcm43xx driver or the bcm43xx-mac80211 driver.
right, i'm already there -- that's all now documented at the
aforementioned wiki page, based on a fully-updated F7 system:
http://www.linux-games.ca/wiki/index.php/Rday%27s_installing_Broadcom_4318_wifi
> The mac80211 drivers for F7 (2.6.22 and later) kernels need the V4
> version of the Broadcom firmware. Where you get that is up to you.
> Most people download the Windows driver from the Broadcom site or here:
>
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/bcm43xx#devicefirmware
>
> and use fwcutter to cut out the firmware. Put the resulting file in
> your /lib/firmware directory.
um ... would that produce a different result from getting the tarball
from downloads.openwrt.org?
> Now you can try to "modprobe bcm43xx-mac80211" and see if you get a
> wlan0 device.
also documented at the wiki -- initially, it *is* that module that is
loaded, and i have a wlan0 device as shown there. i'm still testing a
few more things at the moment, and i'll wiki them as i discover them.
rday
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