Broadcom BCM4318 wireless

[Vladimir Kosovac]

Are ndiswrapper kernel-module rpm_s available for any of the FC5 kernels for
wireless card in the subject line?

Thanks, V

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 21:42 +1300, Vladimir Kosovac wrote:
> Are ndiswrapper kernel-module rpm_s available for any of the FC5
> kernels for wireless card in the subject line?

ndiswrapper is a generic driver, and requires that you have the actual
Windows driver for that card off the driver CD you got with the card.
That Broadcom driver wouldn't be packaged with ndiswrapper itself.  In
any case, there are likely ndiswrapper modules out there, but since
ndiswrapper is not in the Linux kernel and likely will never be, you'll
be constantly rebuilding or updating ndiswrapper yourself as Rawhide/FC5
keeps moving.  People with Broadcom wireless cards are pretty much stuck
between a rock and a hard place.

Dan

[Arjan van de Ven]

> .  People with Broadcom wireless cards are pretty much stuck
> between a rock and a hard place.

.. or they can start helping the open source broadcom driver project
instead.... they need the help.

[Vladimir Kosovac]

Unfortunatelly, pinnacle of my coding (if you can call that coding) skills
are shell script 'for' loops :o).

V

On 12/1/05, Arjan van de Ven  wrote:
> > .  People with Broadcom wireless cards are pretty much stuck
> > between a rock and a hard place.
>
> .. or they can start helping the open source broadcom driver project
> instead.... they need the help.
>
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[Michael Favia]

Vladimir Kosovac wrote:
> Unfortunatelly, pinnacle of my coding (if you can call that coding) 
> skills are shell script 'for' loops :o).

Luckily you can just:
1. grab the source
2. untar it
3. enter directory
4. run make
5. make install (or make an rpm)
6. install your windows driver (/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i driver.inf)
7. get on network (with a NetworkManager or /sbin/ifup poke)

-mf

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:26 -0600, Michael Favia wrote:
> Vladimir Kosovac wrote:
> > Unfortunatelly, pinnacle of my coding (if you can call that coding) 
> > skills are shell script 'for' loops :o).
>
> Luckily you can just:
> grab the source
> untar it
> enter directory
> run make
> make install (or make an rpm)
> install your windows driver (/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i driver.inf)
> get on network (with a NetworkManager or /sbin/ifup poke)

I was talking about the GPL open source driver, not the binary only
windows one.

see bcm43xx.berlios.de

[John Summerfield]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > .  People with Broadcom wireless cards are pretty much stuck
> > between a rock and a hard place.
>
> .. or they can start helping the open source broadcom driver project
> instead.... they need the help.

Sadly, few users have the skills.

Probably, it's worth repeating often that ndiswrapper and such are not 
useful to people on Power/PowerPC (Mac, iSeries, pSeries), Sun etc.