FC10 and NDISwrapper

[Jerry Feldman]

On 05/07/2009 01:38 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>   
>> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>     
>>> Rather than screw with NDISWrapper, are you using a BroadCom NIC?
>>> There is a native Broadcom driver in F10, but you need to load the 
>>> firmware. There is a utility called b43-fwcutter you would use to do 
>>> this from the Windows driver. In any case, it might be better for you to 
>>> describe your wireless chip and Dell model. Note that NDISWrapper is 
>>> bith a driver (ndiswrapper.ko) as well as a command.  But, in the case 
>>> of Broadcom, it will conflict with the native driver.
>>>
>>>       
>> Where do you D/L the firmware? Or even find the name of the firmware file 
>> to try and dig it out of Windows? The wireless web site has numbers for the 
>> firmware, but they haven't matched any filenames for most of the laptops 
>> I've used.
>>     
>
> The instructions seem fairly clear here:
>
> 	http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmwareinstallation
>
>   
When I first used NDISWrapper on my laptoip, I downloaded the Windows 
.sys file directly from the HP support site for my laptop model. Later 
when I started using the b43-fwcutter on SuSE, I used that .sys file to 
cut the firmware. Currently, while I have F10 on my desktop system, I 
have Ubuntu on my laptop and the b43-fwcutter package seems to know 
where to get the firmware.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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