another fedora release...

[Jerry Feldman]

I have a Broadcom wireless in my laptop which has run SuSE and Ubuntu.=20
With SuSE, I used NDISWrapper that does use the Windows Driver, but when =

the native b43 driver came out, I used fwcutter to extract the firmware. =

At that time, it was very picky on which firmware. The Windows driver I=20
had been using under NDISWrapper was too new. However, with Ubuntu,=20
maybe around 7 or 8, the b43-fwcutter found the proper firmware in the=20
Canonical repositories.

On 06/09/2009 08:08 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> This very afternoon, I helped a friend with an Acer 5000 get wireless
> working with that same chip.  I used fwcutter, which hunted down the
> firmware and installed everything perfectly.  Rebooted, and wireless
> just worked.  This is on Ubuntu Jaunty.
>
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>  =20
>> On Jun 9, 2009, at 3:05 PM, John Abreau wrote:
>>
>>    =20
>>> It's an Acer Aspire One, ruby red with a 10-inch screen.
>>> The label on the bottom says "D150-1920", and "lspci"
>>> shows that it has a Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
>>> wireless NIC.
>>>      =20
>> Huh. The b43 driver *should* work for that chip, I believe, but b43 =20
>> does require that you hunt down a binary driver file and extract =20
>> firmware from it using b43-fwcutter. Could be a newer revision of the =
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>> 4312 or something though.
>>
>>    =20
>>> Yes, i added the rpmfusion repos before I installed broadcom-wl.
>>> There were a couple other procedures I tried that didn't work,
>>> before I ran across the one that used broadcom-wl.
>>>      =20
>> I'm assuming the b43 route was one of the others that didn't work?
>>
>> fwiw, broadcom-wl is at least kept reasonably up-to-date by Broadcom, =
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>> because Dell uses these chips in their netbooks and laptops that ship =
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>> with Ubuntu on them, and after some earlier versions absolutely SUCKED=
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>> for throughput, updated versions of the driver actually did quite =20
>> respectable for 802.11n throughput. (I have two BCM43xx 802.11n cards =
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>> in my possession).
>>
>>
>>
>>    =20
>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Jarod Wilson<jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> =20
>>> wrote:
>>>      =20
>>>> On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:29 PM, John Abreau wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        =20
>>>>> I'm planning to load it onto my netbook tonight, if I get out of th=
e
>>>>> office early enough. I just loaded the preview release at the
>>>>> Installfest
>>>>> a bit over a week ago, and I haven't done much with the thing yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone at the Installfest had asked me whether the Acer's wireless=

>>>>> was working.  Wireless didn't work out of the box when I frst
>>>>> installed
>>>>> the preview release, but after I installed the package "broadcom-wl=
"
>>>>> and rebooted, wireless worked fine.
>>>>>          =20
>>>> Which netbook? My own Acer netbook (Aspire One, 8.9" screen) came =20
>>>> with
>>>> an Atheros wifi chip, which does work out of the box.
>>>>
>>>> Note that broadcom-wl is the partially-closed-source driver direct
>>>> from Broadcom for their most recent (particularly n-capable) chips,
>>>> and is found in the RPM Fusion repo, not the Fedora repo.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        =20
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jerry Feldman<gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>>          =20
>>>>>> I plan to do a full install this weekend, and preserving my
>>>>>> existing Fedora
>>>>>> 10.  Additionally, instead of the usual method of downloading,
>>>>>> burning a
>>>>>> DVD, I will either do a network install like I did with Fedora 10
>>>>>> (eg.
>>>>>> placing the isolinux and corresponding initrd into my /boot
>>>>>> directory), or
>>>>>> an HD install directly from the iso. Probably install directly fro=
m
>>>>>> the iso
>>>>>> since I'll want to have F11 for the next installfest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 06/09/2009 09:43 AM, Stephen Adler wrote:
>>>>>>            =20
>>>>>>> It looks like fedora 11 is out, but not quite announced yet....
>>>>>>> I'd love
>>>>>>> to read posts of those brave enough to upgrade their systems....
>>>>>>>              =20
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