--- "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wolfgang+gnus200603@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com wrote:
Josh Coffman josh_coffman@yahoo.com writes:
ehm... i use 4318 with 2.6.16, and absolutly no
real
problem (sometimes i must bring eth down, up, down to put
in
monitor mode, but hey it's work!). I read this ml to stay updated to release and
news,
but if i can help ask without problem. The card works for Florian and me, so seem like
the
drivers is good, but some config broken it....
In my case I don't see any eth1 show up, so I can't even ifconfig down/up the interface.
I tried the bcm43xx driver last night. The device name I saw was wlan0.
You may need to build the bcm43xx driver from more recent source. maybe even use their fwcutter util
to
pull the softmac info out of the windows driver.
While the laptop came with all the ms-windows stuff (and the wireless works under ms-windows), I don't know enough to even find the broadcom firmware. Heck, I dont' even know what they call their find(1) utility (or if they even have one). Any hints what the pathname of the firmware file would be or how I go about finding it?
Under windows, use the windows key + f and it should bring up the file search util. In case you don't know which key is the "windows", it is usually just to the right of the left CTRL on a typical 101 keyboard.
It's been a while since I messed with it but the files your looking for should be in the %windows%\system32 path (assuming it not win64) That path usually is c:\windows\system32 or c:\winnt\system32
For my broadcom, the file starts with bcmwl5. You'll want the .inf and the .sys(? .dll) files. I had them on a driver cd.
You may want to look here: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php
In scanning it wuickly, I didn't see the bcm4318 driver. But you can probably google it.
The bcm43xx-fwcutter README files assume the reader understands more about ms-windows than I do.
To the firmware I used the url's at the bottom of the one README. fwcutter didn't like some of the files claiming they were too old and it couldn't extract some firmware element. The firmware from http://openwrt.inf.fh-brs.de/~nbd/wl_apsta.o seemed new enough that fwcutter got all it needed, but perhaps that firmware wasn't quite right either.
-wolfgang
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