[SOLVED]RE: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network[SOLVED}

2011-03-04 Thread Suresh Govindachar
1) Download sources from Broadcom http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php 2) yum --installroot=`pwd`/foo -y -v install kernel-{headers,devel}-`uname -r` 3) yum --installroot=`pwd`/foo -y -v install gcc 4) set-up PATH for usr/local/bin and usr/bin 5) set-up LD_L

RE: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-04 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Suresh Govindachar wrote: >Todd Zullinger wrote: >>stan wrote: yum install development-group development-libs >>> >>> I realized I made an error in this command. It should be >>> >>> yum groupinstall development-tools development-libs >> >> As a slight tangent, you can

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-04 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Todd Zullinger wrote: >stan wrote: >>> yum install development-group development-libs >> >> I realized I made an error in this command. It should be >> >> yum groupinstall development-tools development-libs > > As a slight tangent, you can use install with groups, you > just ne

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-03 Thread Terry Polzin
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 10:26 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 08:04:54 -0800, > Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > > > What's a "release day" live iso? I downloaded > > The normal one. You can make a respin that includes updates using > livecd-creator. > > > Fedora-14-x

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 08:04:54 -0800, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > What's a "release day" live iso? I downloaded The normal one. You can make a respin that includes updates using livecd-creator. > Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso a week or so ago from > fedoraproject.org. So this

RE: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-03 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bruno Wolff III wrote: >On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:52:19 +, > Suresh Govindachar wrote: >> >> Question 1: What's the bug that prevents $releaserver >> from taking its value? > > The feature of supporting $releasever in livecd-tools didn't > come out until afte

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:52:19 +, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > Question 1: What's the bug that prevents $releaserver from > taking its value? The feature of supporting $releasever in livecd-tools didn't come out until after the F14 release. So if you are using a release

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-02 Thread Suresh Govindachar
[ Background: Installing drivers for Broadcom's wireless card on a Dell M6400 laptop running a Live USB of Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso failed to result in a wireless connection; since Broadcom's sources from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-02 Thread Todd Zullinger
stan wrote: >> yum install development-group development-libs > > I realized I made an error in this command. It should be > > yum groupinstall development-tools development-libs As a slight tangent, you can use install with groups, you just need to prefix them with the @ symbol, e.g.: yum i

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-02 Thread stan
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:49:33 -0700 stan wrote: > Use > yum install development-group development-libs > I realized I made an error in this command. It should be yum groupinstall development-tools development-libs And as a further note, if you have problems with missing dependencies while yo

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-03-01 Thread stan
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:53:41 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > You could install the development group, and do it all > > within the live CD environment, but that is a pretty big > > project also. And unless you put the result somewhere > > permanent, you will lose it when you shut

RE: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-28 Thread Suresh Govindachar
[It seems to take ages for the mailing list to forward posts, so I have taken to cc'ing authors I reply to.] stan wrote: >On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:58:22 -0800 >"Suresh Govindachar" wrote: >> >> I read http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt >> carefully; and in each of

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-27 Thread stan
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:58:22 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > I read http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt > carefully; and in each of the following attempts, I made > use of the instructions in the README. I tried the rpms: > > broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch

RE: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Anne Wilson wrote: >On Saturday 26 February 2011 15:10:24 Suresh Govindachar wrote: >>Alan Cox replied as follows: >>>On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 >>>"Suresh Govindachar" wrote: >>> In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop with [Fedora was missing

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
> Found info on fwcutter at http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Its also in the Fedora repository > I think fwcutter is, essentially, a linux tool that extracts > firmware from Windows driver. Basically yes > But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
> I think the reason why Broadcom's firmware is not in Fedora is > because Broadcom does not provide (VHDL, Verilog or whatever) > source code for the firmware, and Fedora.org wants source code > for everything in it distributes. You think wrongly. There is lots of firmware included in Fedora

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:53:23 -0800, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > That's not what I said. That page is Broadcom distributing > > the firmware. They don't let other people do it (at least > > not without signing a contract). > > Not so; I have rea

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:53:23 -0800, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > Not so; I have read their licence.txt -- have you? The > licence.txt is in simple English (not leaglease) -- it allows > distribution of the firmware. I hadn't read one since they started providing an open source drive

RE: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bruno Wolff III wrote: >On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:06:25 -0800, > Suresh Govindachar wrote: >>Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>>On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:10:24 +, >>> Suresh Govindachar wrote: But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux on: htt

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:06:25 -0800, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:10:24 +, > > Suresh Govindachar wrote: > >> > >> But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux > >> on: http://www.broadcom.com/suppor

RE: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bruno Wolff III wrote: >On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:10:24 +, > Suresh Govindachar wrote: >> >> But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux >> on: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php (such >> support has existed since October 2008.) > >B

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:10:24 +, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux > on: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php (such > support has existed since October 2008.) Because they don't let people redistribute thei

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 February 2011 15:10:24 Suresh Govindachar wrote: > Alan Cox replied as follows: > >On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 > > > >"Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > >> In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop > >> with [Fedora was missing in OP]-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, >

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Alan Cox replied as follows: >On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 >"Suresh Govindachar" wrote: >> >> In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop >> with [Fedora was missing in OP]-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, >> I have gotten as far as being able to create a live usb >> stick. My n

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 February 2011 11:55:34 Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 > > "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop > > with -14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, I have gotten as far as > > being able to create a

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > Hello, > > In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop > with -14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, I have gotten as far as > being able to create a live usb stick. My next step is to get > on the internet via th

Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-25 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hello, In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop with -14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, I have gotten as far as being able to create a live usb stick. My next step is to get on the internet via the Dell Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card and my "WPA" network. Broa