Larry Finger wrote:
Andrig T. Miller wrote:
I booted a new Fedora kernel this morning, and it loaded the new b43
driver, and I still had the v4 firmware in /lib/firmware. The first
time I connected it connected at 2 Mb/s, versus the 1 Mb/s that it used
to connect at. I had needed to
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:50:12PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
If your V4 firmware is still in /lib/firmware, then the Fedora kernel is a
little behind the
wireless-dev tree. Once the code that uses the new naming scheme hits their
kernel, your wireless
will probably stop working. Be
Ok, I have been trying to make heads or tails of it, which driver do I
need to use for the broadcom 4311 dell wlan 1390.
Is it b43 or bcm43xx? I have just upgraded a fedora 7 installation to
2.6.22.4-65 and want to give the native driver a try again.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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John Pierce wrote:
Ok, I have been trying to make heads or tails of it, which driver do I
need to use for the broadcom 4311 dell wlan 1390.
Is it b43 or bcm43xx? I have just upgraded a fedora 7 installation to
2.6.22.4-65 and want to give the native driver a try again.
You may use either
Ioannis Nousias wrote:
Larry Finger wrote:
Andrig T. Miller wrote:
I booted a new Fedora kernel this morning, and it loaded the new b43
driver, and I still had the v4 firmware in /lib/firmware. The first
time I connected it connected at 2 Mb/s, versus the 1 Mb/s that it
used to
On Monday 27 August 2007 17:00:18 Johannes Berg wrote:
It is certainly not impossible, you can easily map the old to the new
names and write a script that renames them, adds the header and
In theory.
In practice not. How do you reliably map the random initvalsXX naming to
the new one?
I don't
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:56 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
You may use either one. The driver supported by mainstream kernels is
bcm43xx, which uses SoftMAC as
its MAC layer. The driver named b43, which uses mac80211 as its MAC layer,
will be replacing bcm43xx
in mainstream in the coming
Dru Devore wrote:
I wrote this group about this card, Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless
1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card rev 02, a couple of weeks ago and got some
information from Larry, Thank you Larry.
I have been seeing a lot of messages lately about the b43 and was
wondering if it would
