Test kernel with Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support.

[David Woodhouse]

I've built a test kernel with bcm43xx wireless support, from
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ 

It's a rawhide kernel but it installs and runs on FC4 with --nodeps 

http://david.woodhou.se/kernel-2.6.14-1.1805_FC5.bcm43xx.ppc.rpm
http://david.woodhou.se/kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1805_FC5.bcm43xx.ppc.rpm

It seems to work, with WEP, if I set the ESSID manually -- but only for
Legacy IP; not yet for IPv6 because there are multicast problems so it
doesn't see the router advertisement. And suspend/resume is known not to
work. But it's getting there, and it's already at the point where it
might be useful to some people, and could certainly do with some more
testing. 

You need to fetch and use the 'fwcutter' tool to get the firmware into a
form which the kernel driver will be able to use -- see the README at
http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/bcm43xx/trunk/fwcutter/README?op=file&rev=...
and download from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/fwcutter/

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dwmw2

[Gerald Henriksen]

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:29:14 +0000, you wrote:

> I've built a test kernel with bcm43xx wireless support, from
> http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/  
Using the latest rawhide kernel it is working fine for me using WEP
and NetworkManager on a Dell laptop.  

Only issue is it seems to be slower than ndiswrapper.

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 22:05 -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
>  Using the latest rawhide kernel it is working fine for me using WEP
>  and NetworkManager on a Dell laptop.  
>  
>  Only issue is it seems to be slower than ndiswrapper. 
Try manally slowing it down... 'iwconfig eth1 rate 11M' 
Try also 18M.

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[Pete Graner]

David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 22:05 -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
>   
>
> >Using the latest rawhide kernel it is working fine for me using WEP
> >and NetworkManager on a Dell laptop.  
> >
> >Only issue is it seems to be slower than ndiswrapper.
> >    
> >
>
> Try manally slowing it down... 'iwconfig eth1 rate 11M' 
> Try also 18M.
>
>   
>  
On my powerbook G4, 11Mbs works fine couldn't get 18Mbs to work. Also I 
have to statically set the IP address dhclient work work, it tries but 
finally dies. If I set the IP by and it works just fine.

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