Re: b43 on Dell i1545 laptop

2010-01-06 Thread Jim Haynes
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Larry Finger wrote: I have revised the wiki. You will not get the xxx15.fw files. Thanks, now I have the xxx15.fw files the wiki and then copy the files in /lib/firmware/b43/ to some removable device. After you boot the CD, then copy those files to the firmware

Re: b43 on Dell i1545 laptop

2010-01-05 Thread Jim Haynes
I'm not sure if this is a b43 problem or a Fedora problem. After the advice given previously, I grabbed a nightly Fedora 13 spin that has a 2.6.32.2-15.fc13.x86_64 kernel and ran from the live DVD. going through dmesg it eventually gets to b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)

b43 on Dell i1545 laptop

2010-01-04 Thread Jim Haynes
I've just joined the list, and most of the stuff is way over my head. Is there a list for b43 users? I just got a Dell i1545 laptop and put Fedora 12 on it. The current kernel is 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 lspci says [14e4:4315] (rev 01) and the b43 web page says support is in progress but I