2.6.22 kernel and WiFi

[Karl Larsen]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> John W. Linville wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:22:39PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 07:57:01AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>>>> Hi Mark. I am writing a paper about getting WiFi to work on Linux. Are
>>>>>> you certain there is no Linux software package for your laptop. Do you
>>>>>> know who made the WiFi hardware in your laptop? Have you been to
>>>>>> the web
>>>>>> page with all the data?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Karl
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>>>>> When I last looked (a year ago maybe) it was not supported.  It's a
>>>>> broadcom card (4306), which, at the time, was supported 32-bit, but not
>>>>> 64-bit, which is what I have.  That's why I asked about ndiswrapper,
>>>>> it's the only method I was aware of at the time that would work with
>>>>> this card and 64-bit.
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>>>>>           
>>>> Huh?
>>>>
>>>> Try it again...
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Perhaps this was too terse -- I apologize.
>>>
>>> The 4306 part should be well supported on all platforms with either
>>> the new (default in F-7) or old bcm43xx drivers.  Be sure to extract
>>> the firmware.  I suggest running bcm43xx-fwcutter on the wl.o file
>>> from here:
>>>
>>>     http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> Be sure to either reboot or 'modprobe -r bcm43xx-mac80211 ; modprobe
>>> bcm43xx-mac80211' after extracting the firmware.  I would be very
>>> surprised if your 4306 did not work afterwards.
>>>
>>> John
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hi John, are you sure this will all run on a 64 bit kernel and computer?
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>     
>
> I've had the same thought, I initially was told it would NOT run 64-bit.
>  But I'm gonna give it a shot and see how it flies.
>
>
>   
Heck yes. The worst is it will not work. No big deal :-)

Karl