I have another question. I have been trying to use the wireless on my Dell laptop but with no success. I can use the wireless on Windows without any problems. I am using the Kwifimanager. I also used Linksys WUSB54G in Florida last year on windows but unable to pick it up on Linux. I also can pick up all kinds of networks on Windows with the Broadcom card in the Dell but no luck on the Linux side. Any sugestions?
Herb Taylor
Herbert Taylor wrote:
I have another question. I have been trying to use the wireless on my Dell laptop but with no success. I can use the wireless on Windows without any problems. I am using the Kwifimanager. I also used Linksys WUSB54G in Florida last year on windows but unable to pick it up on Linux. I also can pick up all kinds of networks on Windows with the Broadcom card in the Dell but no luck on the Linux side. Any sugestions?
Herb Taylor
Be really careful about asking about Broadcom cards on this list. Some people get their panties in a wad over it. I have a Broadcom card in my laptop and I've had no trouble using open networks with ndiswrapper and some WPA networks (like my office one) with it. Mostly ndiswrapper works fine.
However, some people will bitch and moan about ndiswrapper in general. Their are broadcom drivers in the kernel that people have had varying success with. I've been too busy to try my card with those drivers, but I will give it a go this weekend. My problem is that I'm running 64-bit. The 32-bit modules seem to work pretty well.
FWIW.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:46:17AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
However, some people will bitch and moan about ndiswrapper in general.
If your are comfortable running code in your kernel that wasn't written to run there, then knock yourself out. Really, I'm happy that you got something to work.
But please don't encourage people to use ndiswrapper until they have tried the in-kernel drivers and actually had problems. That is counter productive. If nothing else, it reinforces the notion that using Linux requires a bunch of fiddling/compiling/whatever not only to get started but everytime you update the kernel -- that just isn't true if you use the in-kernel drivers.
Their are broadcom drivers in the kernel that people have had varying success with. I've been too busy to try my card with those drivers, but I will give it a go this weekend. My problem is that I'm running 64-bit. The 32-bit modules seem to work pretty well.
_Please_ stop saying this. Whatever problems might exist with the in-kernel bcm43xx and bcm43xx-mac80211 drivers, they are not related to bit-width. FWIW, much of the development of those drivers is done on 64-bit powerpc systems.
John
P.S. OK, could there be some individual problem with bit-width somewhere in their? I suppose. Is there some general "doesn't work on 64-bit" issue? No.
Herbert Taylor wrote:
I have another question. I have been trying to use the wireless on my Dell laptop but with no success. I can use the wireless on Windows without any problems. I am using the Kwifimanager. I also used Linksys WUSB54G in Florida last year on windows but unable to pick it up on Linux. I also can pick up all kinds of networks on Windows with the Broadcom card in the Dell but no luck on the Linux side. Any sugestions?
Herb Taylor
Herb. I will send you a paper that will help you get Linux working or tell you why it doesn't.
Karl
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:40:32AM -0400, Herbert Taylor wrote:
I have another question. I have been trying to use the wireless on my Dell laptop but with no success. I can use the wireless on Windows without any problems. I am using the Kwifimanager. I also used Linksys WUSB54G in Florida last year on windows but unable to pick it up on Linux. I also can pick up all kinds of networks on Windows with the Broadcom card in the Dell but no luck on the Linux side. Any sugestions?
Please see this thread:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2007-July/msg02069.html
Do try to use the 4.x firmware with the bcm43xx-mac80211 driver first. If that fails, then try running the updated version of the bcm43xx-old-config (included at the bottom of the link above).
John
Herbert Taylor writes:
I have another question. I have been trying to use the wireless on my Dell laptop but with no success. I can use the wireless on Windows without any problems. I am using the Kwifimanager. I also used Linksys WUSB54G in Florida last year on windows but unable to pick it up on Linux. I also can pick up all kinds of networks on Windows with the Broadcom card in the Dell but no luck on the Linux side. Any sugestions?
Broadcom wireless hardware has poor-to-nonexistent Linux support due to Broadcom's refusal to work with the Linux community.
If it doesn't work for you, you're boned.
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Herbert Taylor writes:
I have another question. I have been trying to use the wireless on my Dell laptop but with no success. I can use the wireless on Windows without any problems. I am using the Kwifimanager. I also used Linksys WUSB54G in Florida last year on windows but unable to pick it up on Linux. I also can pick up all kinds of networks on Windows with the Broadcom card in the Dell but no luck on the Linux side. Any sugestions?
Broadcom wireless hardware has poor-to-nonexistent Linux support due to Broadcom's refusal to work with the Linux community.
If it doesn't work for you, you're boned.
This may no longer be true:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/driver-sla.php?driver=4401-Linu...
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Steven J. Brown (NY) wrote:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Herbert Taylor writes:
I have another question. I have been trying to use the wireless on my Dell laptop but with no success. I can use the wireless on Windows without any problems. I am using the Kwifimanager. I also used Linksys WUSB54G in Florida last year on windows but unable to pick it up on Linux. I also can pick up all kinds of networks on Windows with the Broadcom card in the Dell but no luck on the Linux side. Any sugestions?
Broadcom wireless hardware has poor-to-nonexistent Linux support due to Broadcom's refusal to work with the Linux community.
If it doesn't work for you, you're boned.
This may no longer be true:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/driver-sla.php?driver=4401-Linu...
Not sure if that's a wireless card, though.
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:48:16AM -0400, Steven J. Brown (NY) wrote:
Steven J. Brown (NY) wrote:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Broadcom wireless hardware has poor-to-nonexistent Linux support due to Broadcom's refusal to work with the Linux community.
If it doesn't work for you, you're boned.
This may no longer be true:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/driver-sla.php?driver=4401-Linu...
Not sure if that's a wireless card, though.
I'm sure it is not...