Christopher Sawtell wrote: >> He was thrilled, despite the fact that wireless stopped working an >> hour after starting to use Kubuntu due to a stuff-up in the firmware >> that came with the Linux driver and I haven't been able to fix that >> yet. > > A few more details would be appreciated.
His laptop uses broadcom bcm4312. The free drivers have a show-stopping bug whereby the act of uploading the supplied firmware in DMA mode locks up the card. The card needs to be removed and pins shorted to reset it. There's a work-around that involves re-compiling the driver to load the firmware in pio mode instead of dma mode. I have located some how-tos on how to do all this, but it's involved and I haven't gotten round to it yet. Yuri
