On 05/07/2009 01:38 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
>> Rather than screw with NDISWrapper, are you using a BroadCom NIC?
>> There is a native Broadcom driver in F10, but you need to load the
>> firmware. There is a utility called b43-fwcutter you would use to do
>> this from the Windows driver. In any case, it might be better for you to
>> describe your wireless chip and Dell model. Note that NDISWrapper is
>> bith a driver (ndiswrapper.ko) as well as a command. But, in the case
>> of Broadcom, it will conflict with the native driver.
>>
>>
> Where do you D/L the firmware? Or even find the name of the firmware file
> to try and dig it out of Windows? The wireless web site has numbers for the
> firmware, but they haven't matched any filenames for most of the laptops
> I've used.
>
The instructions seem fairly clear here:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmwareinstallation
When I first used NDISWrapper on my laptoip, I downloaded the Windows
.sys file directly from the HP support site for my laptop model. Later
when I started using the b43-fwcutter on SuSE, I used that .sys file to
cut the firmware. Currently, while I have F10 on my desktop system, I
have Ubuntu on my laptop and the b43-fwcutter package seems to know
where to get the firmware.
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