one more time -- broadcom wireless on f7

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Martin Marques wrote:
> Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>   at the risk of belabouring this issue (and i'm sure it's way too
>>> late to be worried about that *now* :-), i'm still interested in
>>> whether there's a known, reliable and deterministic way to get
>>> wireless working on f7 (and, additionally, f8t1) on my laptop which
>>> has a broadcom 4318 chip.
>>
>> ndiswrapper is the way to go if you have a 4318. My laptop is a year 
>> old and has seen FCs 5-7 and only with FC7 has it been working.
>> Is your laptop 64bit? If so, keep in mind that you need to use the 
>> 64bit version of the broadcom drivers (bcmwl564.inf). 32bit won't work.
> 
> Any link on where to download the driver? I don't seem to find it, or if 
> I find it, it is a windows executable. :-(

Reading all the arguments and counter-arguments in the thread on the 
list, I have a very strong feeling that in the case of ndiswrapper it is 
not the how-to that matters. They all tell you do perform the same 
steps, more or less. IMHO, what matters is the actual driver that you 
use. I have an Acer Aspire 5004 NWLMi. The broadcom drivers that were 
bundled with the laptop never worked for me. The driver that it worked 
with came from an Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop.




"The version number of the driver that works on an Acer Aspire 5004 
NWLMi (64bit) is 02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0. You can get it here[1]"

[1] 
ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/ferrari_4000/driver/winxp64bit/80211g.zip

This is the kind of information that would be infinitely useful for 
those struggling to get their broadcom wireless to do what it's meant to do.

-- 
Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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