On Friday 17 November 2006 12:10, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 15:18 -0400, James Oakley wrote:
> > On Friday 17 November 2006 2:27 am, John Andersen wrote:
> > > On Thursday 16 November 2006 21:20, John Pierce wrote:
> > > > The Knetworkmanager connects to my wireless router just fine. 
> > > > However I run a local network and wish to use a static address and I
> > > > cannot get it to allow me to set the address of wlan0 to be static
> > > > and use my personal nameservers.
> > >
> > > So set it in your router.
> > > Most routers have IP reservation capability and thats much easier than
> > > booting machines with statics anyway.
> > >
> > > Bummer about ndiswrapper.  I thought there was a project for the 
> > > bc44XX.
> >
> > The bcm43xx driver was included in the mainline kernel in 2.6.18, which
> > will be shipped in 10.2.
>
> But it does not include the firmware which of course makes it useless.
> The firmware can be downloaded from Ubuntu ( but it still has issues ).
> Will this issue ( the firmware ) be cleared up when 10.2 goes GM?

Can one yank the firmware off the windows driver disks in the meantime?

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