--- "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"
<wolfgang+gnus200603(a)dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com>
wrote:
Josh Coffman <josh_coffman(a)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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