Broadcom 43: FC7 vs FC8

Thu Jan 31 07:34:16 UTC 2008

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:33 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On my Compaq dual boot laptop with FC7, I never
> got my Broadcom 43 wifi to work despite applying
> numerous suggestions received on this list. Are
> there relevant improvements in FC8, or is it
> best to wait for future developments?  

FWIW, I just upgraded my wife's laptop from F7 to F8 (mainly because of
problems with b43 in the newest F7 kernel) and it's working beautifully.
I did do a clean install, and grabbed the firmware from the web site the
driver recommends when it can't find any firmware.

Jonathan
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