Wireless, Broadcom

[Bill Davidsen]

Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Jeroen de Haas wrote:
>>
>>> There is a tutorial on setting up ndiswrapper on Fedora:
>>> http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/ndis-yum-livna . This text assumes
>>> you have configured yum to use the livna repository (which does contain
>>> the ndiswrapper packages) as explained in
>>> http://fedoramobile.org/solved/post-install-solutions/yum-config/ . 
>>>
>> I have very mixed feelings about using Windows drivers for much of 
>> anything, perhaps too many urban legends about an IRQ coming in while the 
>> driver is running in a privileged mode. There are new Broadcom drivers 
>> coming in the future, but at the rate I see progress that might be after 
>> the stock market gets back to 14000. :-(
>>
>> An alternate solution, which I'm using, is to buy a USB wireless modem 
>> and use that. Clearly not the optimal solution, but one which avoids the 
>> issues with running NDIS drivers.
> 
> Which USB modem do you like?
> 
> I have had mixed results and some still require ndiswrapper or other tricks.
> 
Sorry for the slow reply, I use a Linksys WUSB54C (that's all the info in lsusb, 
nothing on the invoice, package nong recycled). If I were using ndiswrapper I 
could use the built-in Broadcom b4310, but I'd rather not, at least for now.

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