Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been able to get WiFi to come up on at all. Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter. In each case, the default F11 B43 drivers simply don't work at all. I also have tried the kmod-wl / broadcom-wl drivers from RPM Fusion. No Dice. This is really starting to irritate me It's almost to the point that I'm ready to rip these adapters out of these machines and replace them with Intel ones if I can find some that will fit. What needs to happen to have Broadcom's goofy hardware to behave and actually work using F11? -- = "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been > able to get WiFi to come up on at all. > > Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a > Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the > other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter. Broadcom has a history of being outright hostile toward the FOSS software developers... Check this out... http://blogs.computerworld.com/new_linux_broadcom_wi_fi_drivers_arrive If you want top-notch linux support, remove one (1) screw from the back of the lappy to expose the Wi-Fi card, remove it, and replace it with one with an atheros chipset. Only $16 + shipping in the US of A... http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Mini-PCI-Wireless-card-802.11a%2Fb%2Fg-Atheros-AR5004X_W0QQitemZ180353169089QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090504?IMSfp=TL090504122008r37515 FC -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
2009/6/23 Christopher A. Williams > > I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been > able to get WiFi to come up on at all. > > Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a > Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the > other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter. > > In each case, the default F11 B43 drivers simply don't work at all. I > also have tried the kmod-wl / broadcom-wl drivers from RPM Fusion. No > Dice. > > This is really starting to irritate me It's almost to the point that > I'm ready to rip these adapters out of these machines and replace them > with Intel ones if I can find some that will fit. Details are needed. Some broadcom cards won't work. Give us the output of lspci -vv (only the specific to the wifi card). -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On 23/06/09 22:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been able to get WiFi to come up on at all. Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter. Despite that fact that Broadcom are arseholes when it comes to Linux I've found the adaptors work pretty damn well, thanks to the guys who've meticulously worked to provide the kernel drives. I would guess that you're missing the required firmware? It isn't distributed with Fedora for legal reasons. Have a look here, particularly the section about firmware installation: http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:34 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2009/6/23 Christopher A. Williams > > > > I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been > > able to get WiFi to come up on at all. > > > > Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a > > Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the > > other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter. > > > > In each case, the default F11 B43 drivers simply don't work at all. I > > also have tried the kmod-wl / broadcom-wl drivers from RPM Fusion. No > > Dice. > > > > This is really starting to irritate me It's almost to the point that > > I'm ready to rip these adapters out of these machines and replace them > > with Intel ones if I can find some that will fit. > > Details are needed. Some broadcom cards won't work. > > Give us the output of lspci -vv (only the specific to the wifi card). Your wish is my command! ...At least for the Gateway laptop. It's sitting right next to me so that was pretty easy. I'll have to get the other laptop back later. 02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Gateway 7510GX Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > Your wish is my command! > > ...At least for the Gateway laptop. It's sitting right next to me so > that was pretty easy. I'll have to get the other laptop back later. > > 02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One > 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) > Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Gateway 7510GX ... etc ... that is *exactly* the setup on the gateway laptop i have next to me, on which i'd like to install f11 later this week, so if you keep careful notes, that would be just ducky! :-) actually, i have a pretty good idea how to install then add the appropriate firmware later, but if someone can verify the steps before i get there, well, bonus. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 23/06/09 22:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been > > able to get WiFi to come up on at all. > > > > Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a > > Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the > > other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter. > > Despite that fact that Broadcom are arseholes when it comes to Linux > I've found the adaptors work pretty damn well, thanks to the guys who've > meticulously worked to provide the kernel drives. I would guess that > you're missing the required firmware? It isn't distributed with Fedora > for legal reasons. Have a look here, particularly the section about > firmware installation: > > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > > This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you > try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled. Thanks! This worked like a champ. On both machines. Just for clarification on F11, the _only_ thing that is missing is the firmware. The b43-fwcutter version that comes with F11 works on the firmware packages. There is no need to install it again. Also, the firmware directory on F11 is /lib/firmware - the default location for most distros. All I needed to to was to download the correct firmware package and extract per the instructions above, and voila! Cheers, Chris -- = "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
2009/6/23 Christopher A. Williams > > 02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One > 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) This chip is supported. Download the firmware and follow the instruction from: http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 13:17 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2009/6/23 Christopher A. Williams > > > > 02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One > > 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) > > This chip is supported. > > Download the firmware and follow the instruction from: > > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Actually, Thanks to Ian Chapman, we figured this out and resolved the issue about 30 minutes prior to your reply. Thanks for looking though - it is the correct solution. Cheers, Chris -- = "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
Fernando Cassia wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been able to get WiFi to come up on at all. Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter. Broadcom has a history of being outright hostile toward the FOSS software developers... Check this out... http://blogs.computerworld.com/new_linux_broadcom_wi_fi_drivers_arrive Ubuntu 8 is about to be released... wait, that means the article is years old. To provide the full story, the adapters in question are capable of being operated outside the FCC allowed parameters, and Broadcom has expressed some doubts about the wisdom of allowing fully open source. You may think their lawyers are jerks, but they are paid to do CYA, and by keeping the firmware closed they protect themselves. You can agree or disagree with their legal position, but given the support they do provide, I think "outright hostile toward the FOSS software developers" is pretty strong. I call it overly cautious, and having nothing in my religion which forbids using kmod-wl I'm happy. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> http://blogs.computerworld.com/new_linux_broadcom_wi_fi_drivers_arrive >> > Ubuntu 8 is about to be released... wait, that means the article is years > old. No, it was published October 7, 2008 - 8:05 P.M. (the date is right at the top) That makes it eight months old. FC -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On-topic for this thread: I've got a F10 laptop with a Broadcom chipset. The kernel driver works fine, with the fw-cutter extracted firmware. How can I boot the F11 Live CD to verify that wireless works? It probably does, but I'd like to be sure. I need to have the firmware files merged into the CD. pgp948a3X2BOu.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
"Christopher A. Williams" writes: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: >> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 >> >> This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you >> try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled. > > Thanks! > > This worked like a champ. On both machines. I wonder, would this shell script to wget the binaries and then b43-fwcutter them be the sort of thing that rpmfusion could package up? Having everybody navigate to a web page, figure out which of several code snippets they need and and cut and paste them into a shell window, sounds like the sort of thing that give linux its "user unfriendly" label. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht Android 1.5 (Cupcake) and Fedora-11 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 19:13 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > On-topic for this thread: > > I've got a F10 laptop with a Broadcom chipset. The kernel driver works > fine, with the fw-cutter extracted firmware. > > How can I boot the F11 Live CD to verify that wireless works? It probably > does, but I'd like to be sure. I need to have the firmware files merged into > the CD. > I'm not sure how I would do that with a CD, but if you created a bootable USB drive with some persistent storage, it's quite straight forward to do. Assuming a 1GB USB drive, you can create from the command line with: livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 250 Then just boot from the USB drive and copy over the files as before. Cheers, Chris -- = "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
2009/6/23 Sam Varshavchik : > On-topic for this thread: > > I've got a F10 laptop with a Broadcom chipset. The kernel driver works fine, > with the fw-cutter extracted firmware. > > How can I boot the F11 Live CD to verify that wireless works? It probably > does, but I'd like to be sure. I need to have the firmware files merged into > the CD. If F10's b43 driver worked, it's almost certain that the F11 kernel will as well. -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
2009/6/23 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht : > > "Christopher A. Williams" writes: >> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: >>> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 >>> >>> This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you >>> try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled. >> >> Thanks! >> >> This worked like a champ. On both machines. > > I wonder, would this shell script to wget the binaries and then > b43-fwcutter them be the sort of thing that rpmfusion could package up? > > Having everybody navigate to a web page, figure out which of several > code snippets they need and and cut and paste them into a shell window, > sounds like the sort of thing that give linux its "user unfriendly" > label. Havn't seen this on Fedora packages, but on Debian non-free there's a packaged named flashplugin-nonfree, which has a script named /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree that downloads the flashplugin from the adobe site and installs it. Same thing could be done for b43 firmware. You could add a wissh to rpmfusion. -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:48 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2009/6/23 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht : > > > > "Christopher A. Williams" writes: > >> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > >>> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > >>> > >>> This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you > >>> try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> This worked like a champ. On both machines. > > > > I wonder, would this shell script to wget the binaries and then > > b43-fwcutter them be the sort of thing that rpmfusion could package up? > > > > Having everybody navigate to a web page, figure out which of several > > code snippets they need and and cut and paste them into a shell window, > > sounds like the sort of thing that give linux its "user unfriendly" > > label. > > Havn't seen this on Fedora packages, but on Debian non-free there's a > packaged named flashplugin-nonfree, which has a script named > /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree that downloads the flashplugin > from the adobe site and installs it. > > Same thing could be done for b43 firmware. > > You could add a wissh to rpmfusion. Are we sure they would take this on? They are already carrying the Broadcom "official" drivers as the kmod-wl package set. If they did, they would have to make the two mutually exclusive and explain the difference between them because kmod-wl blacklists the other F11 B43 drivers. Still well worth asking the question though... Cheers, Chris -- = "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On 24.06.2009 02:57, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:48 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: >> 2009/6/23 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht : >>> "Christopher A. Williams" writes: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you > try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled. This worked like a champ. On both machines. >>> I wonder, would this shell script to wget the binaries and then >>> b43-fwcutter them be the sort of thing that rpmfusion could package up? >>> >>> Having everybody navigate to a web page, figure out which of several >>> code snippets they need and and cut and paste them into a shell window, >>> sounds like the sort of thing that give linux its "user unfriendly" >>> label. >> >> Havn't seen this on Fedora packages, but on Debian non-free there's a >> packaged named flashplugin-nonfree, which has a script named >> /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree that downloads the flashplugin >> from the adobe site and installs it. >> >> Same thing could be done for b43 firmware. >> >> You could add a wissh to rpmfusion. > > Are we sure they would take this on? No promised, but I said we should definitely take this. It's just the usual problem: Someone has to package it, submitt it for review and take care of the package afterwards. But it's not that much of work for someone that knows packaging and already contributes to Fedora or RPM Fusion. > [...] CU knurd -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:55:29 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > No promised, but I said we should definitely take this. It's just the > usual problem: Someone has to package it, submitt it for review and take > care of the package afterwards. But it's not that much of work for > someone that knows packaging and already contributes to Fedora or RPM > Fusion. Maybe we should package the free, reversed engineered firmware: http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On 06/24/2009 11:28 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:55:29 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: No promised, but I said we should definitely take this. It's just the usual problem: Someone has to package it, submitt it for review and take care of the package afterwards. But it's not that much of work for someone that knows packaging and already contributes to Fedora or RPM Fusion. Maybe we should package the free, reversed engineered firmware: http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ I am running Fedora 11 on a couple of laptops with B43 and I got the installation files and instructions from this site: http://www.dnmouse.org/broadcom.html I hope this helps -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
Sam Varshavchik wrote: On-topic for this thread: I've got a F10 laptop with a Broadcom chipset. The kernel driver works fine, with the fw-cutter extracted firmware. How can I boot the F11 Live CD to verify that wireless works? It probably does, but I'd like to be sure. I need to have the firmware files merged into the CD. Put the CD in the drive and boot? Assuming there is a drive... You might have to change boot order in the BIOS to boot CD before disk. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
John wrote: On 06/24/2009 11:28 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:55:29 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: No promised, but I said we should definitely take this. It's just the usual problem: Someone has to package it, submitt it for review and take care of the package afterwards. But it's not that much of work for someone that knows packaging and already contributes to Fedora or RPM Fusion. Maybe we should package the free, reversed engineered firmware: http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ I am running Fedora 11 on a couple of laptops with B43 and I got the installation files and instructions from this site: http://www.dnmouse.org/broadcom.html I hope this helps Thanks for the link, good to have. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:28:36AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:55:29 +0200, > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > > No promised, but I said we should definitely take this. It's just the > > usual problem: Someone has to package it, submitt it for review and take > > care of the package afterwards. But it's not that much of work for > > someone that knows packaging and already contributes to Fedora or RPM > > Fusion. > > Maybe we should package the free, reversed engineered firmware: > http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ We almost certainly should... -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your literate lifestyle. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:49:16 -0400, "John W. Linville" wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:28:36AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > Maybe we should package the free, reversed engineered firmware: > > http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ > > We almost certainly should... Turns out a package review for this had been submitted several months ago and now things are moving forward again. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490892 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
| From: John W. Linville | | On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:28:36AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: | > Maybe we should package the free, reversed engineered firmware: | > http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ | | We almost certainly should... Interesting! This concerned me: What this firmware does not support: * does not implement RTS/CTS handshake procedure, must be disabled on module load > * does not work with hardware cryptography acceleration, use without encryption! * does not work with dot11 QoS, must be disabled on module load -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
2009/7/2 D. Hugh Redelmeier : > > * does not work with hardware cryptography acceleration, use > without encryption! So we fall back to doing it in software. No biggie. Richard. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
I have updated broadcom wiki with info on how to install firmware on Fedora 10 and 11: http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmware_installation Please check it out and correct it if I put some wrong info. Cheers! -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:57:09AM +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote: > I have updated broadcom wiki with info on how to install firmware on > Fedora 10 and 11: > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmware_installation > > Please check it out and correct it if I put some wrong info. Have you (or anyone) tried the 4.150.10.5 firmware? It should be compatible with current Fedora kernels for some time. Support for the older firmware is still officially slated to be dropped upstream, FWIW... John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@redhat.com of your literate lifestyle. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:57:09 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote: > I have updated broadcom wiki with info on how to install firmware on > Fedora 10 and 11: > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmware_installation > > Please check it out and correct it if I put some wrong info. The free firmware for some b43 devices is about to show up in Fedora. (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490892) You may want to put up instructions on how and when to use it in addition to the other instructions there. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
