Getting bcm4318 wifi card to work with Fedora 6 & 8

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Rick Bilonick wrote:

>
> >
> > Have you tried this method:
> > http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras
> > It worked flawlessly for me on a new HP with the  Broadcom Corporation
> > BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02).
> > Peter
>
> Yes, I had tried doing what this web page suggested too many times
> to count without any success.
>
> Now that I got the bcm4318 to work perfectly with ndiswrapper, I
> have absolutely no incentive whatsoever to try getting the bcm43xx
> driver to work. I don't see that it would be any better than using
> ndiswrapper, assuming the bcm43xx driver works at all.

i have wireless working just fine on a laptop with a "Broadcom
Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)" using the b43 module.

rday
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