Can't get wireless working with bcm43xx driver

2007-09-21 Thread Shocky
Hi, I recently bought an HP Pavilion dv2412ca laptop, which came with Vista pre-installed. I backed it up, then reformatted and installed Mandriva 2007.1. The laptop has a builtin wireless card that lspci identifies as a Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 02). I

Re: Can't get wireless working with bcm43xx driver

2007-09-21 Thread Larry Finger
Shocky wrote: Hi, I recently bought an HP Pavilion dv2412ca laptop, which came with Vista pre-installed. I backed it up, then reformatted and installed Mandriva 2007.1. The laptop has a builtin wireless card that lspci identifies as a Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN

Re: Can't get wireless working with bcm43xx driver

2007-09-21 Thread Ehud Gavron
There are two drivers that support the hardware. The new one (the one you want) that works with mac80211 is b43. It uses v4 firmware. The older one (the one you don't want) works with ieee80211softmac is b43legacy. It uses v3 firmware. I would download the latest wireless-dev kernel

Re: Can't get wireless working with bcm43xx driver

2007-09-21 Thread Ehud Gavron
Ehud Gavron wrote: There are two drivers that support the hardware. The new one (the one you want) that works with mac80211 is b43. It uses v4 firmware. The older one (the one you don't want) works with ieee80211softmac is b43legacy. It uses v3 firmware. Disregard the rest of my answer...