Re: Getting bcm4318 wifi card to work with Fedora 6 & 8
Peter Reed wrote:
On Thursday 27 December 2007 05:29:21 am Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Rick Bilonick wrote:
>
>> Several weeks ago I posted that my Broadcom bcm4318 mini pci wifi
>> card stopped working with Fedora 6 kernels after 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6
>> in a Dell Inspiron 2200. I had used ndiswrapper and the error
>> messages I was getting seemed to indicate that I needed new
>> firmware. Apparently, this was coming from the newer native bcm43xx
>> driver built into the newer kernels - not from ndiswrapper. No one
>> seemed to have any clue what was wrong. I inadvertently discovered
>> that the reason was that ndiswrapper needed the b43 driver
>> blacklisted (in addition to blacklisting the bcm43xx driver) for the
>> newer kernels. I found a mention of blacklisting the b43 driver in
>> someone's posting on the Internet.
>>
>> I discovered this when I temporarily switched a hard drive from a
>> different laptop (a Toshiba Satellite A15-S129) that had Fedora 8
>> installed without ndiswrapper. When I put the F8 drive in the Dell
>> with the 4318 mini pci wifi card, I still could not get the 4318 to
>> work with the native drivers (it seemed so close - but would ALWAYS
>> end up causing the system to freeze while networkmanager was trying
>> to connect). IMO, the native bcm43xx drivers just will not work with
>> the 4318 in the Dell Inspiron 2200 under F8. (Maybe someone has it
>> working and can prove me wrong.) Once I blacklisted the b43 and used
>> ndiswrapper with bcmwl5.inf, the 4318 worked under F8 (and it works
>> very well as it did before under F6, and blacklisting b43 under F6
>> also works with the newer F6 kernels). So at least I know when I
>> install F8 on the Dell's own hard drive I will be able to use the
>> 4318.
>>
> well, now that i've beaten jigdo to within an inch of its life, maybe
> i should go back and "cookbook-ify" my wiki page on fedora and
> broadcom wireless:
>
> http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Broadcom_wireless_on_Fedora
>
> i haven't looked at it in over a month, and it may be that things have
> improved since then. unless there's already a decent HOWTO on that
> somewhere. john?
>
> rday
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I have to say I think the site has been hacked you might want to check.
Peter
Try this, instead
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Broadcom_wireless_on_Fedora_8
~~R