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

2010-01-06 Thread Larry Finger
On 01/06/2010 05:17 PM, Jim Haynes wrote: 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,

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)

Re: b43 on Dell i1545 laptop

2010-01-05 Thread Larry Finger
On 01/05/2010 09:55 PM, Jim Haynes wrote: I'm not sure if this is a b43 problem or a Fedora problem. It is a problem with Broadcom. When I get the firmware from the web site I get ucode5.fw, ucode13.fw, ucode11.fw but no ucode15.fw(and other stuff with number 5, and 13) I have revised

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

Re: b43 on Dell i1545 laptop

2010-01-04 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2010/1/4 Jim Haynes jhhay...@earthlink.net: 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

Re: b43 on Dell i1545 laptop

2010-01-04 Thread Larry Finger
On 01/04/2010 11:14 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: 2010/1/4 Jim Haynes jhhay...@earthlink.net: I've just joined the list, and most of the stuff is way over my head. Is there a list for b43 users? As you have noticed, this is a list for developers. The user-type questions are generally handled in