2.6.22 kernel and WiFi

[Karl Larsen]

John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:22:39PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 07:57:01AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
>>     
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
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>>>>>   
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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
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> 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