I was reading my daily news sites and saw this: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12886
Anyone know anything about this? I am grateful to ndiswrapper for enabling wireless broadcom under linux, but I would so love to have native support for it.
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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:28 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
I was reading my daily news sites and saw this: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12886
Anyone know anything about this? I am grateful to ndiswrapper for enabling wireless broadcom under linux, but I would so love to have native support for it.
Looks quite interesting. Thanks for the info. Any idea which svn command I have to use to checkout the bcm43xx trunk? I would like to try it out and if it works make an rpm.
Regards, Patrick
--- Patrick fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:28 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
I was reading my daily news sites and saw this: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12886
Anyone know anything about this? I am grateful to ndiswrapper for enabling wireless broadcom under linux, but I would so love to have native support for it.
Looks quite interesting. Thanks for the info. Any idea which svn command I have to use to checkout the bcm43xx trunk? I would like to try it out and if it works make an rpm.
Regards, Patrick
development at: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ svn command is on there. haven't tried it yet myself.
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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:01 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
--- Patrick fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:28 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
I was reading my daily news sites and saw this: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12886
Anyone know anything about this? I am grateful to ndiswrapper for enabling wireless broadcom under linux, but I would so love to have native support for it.
Looks quite interesting. Thanks for the info. Any idea which svn command I have to use to checkout the bcm43xx trunk? I would like to try it out and if it works make an rpm.
Regards, Patrick
development at: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ svn command is on there. haven't tried it yet myself.
Doh, thanks. That was the easy part. The driver needs the softmac solution from http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/ Guess it won't be a quick make; make install...
Regards, Patrick
--- Patrick fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:01 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
--- Patrick fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:28 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
I was reading my daily news sites and saw
this:
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12886
Anyone know anything about this? I am grateful to ndiswrapper for enabling
wireless
broadcom under linux, but I would so love to
have
native support for it.
Looks quite interesting. Thanks for the info. Any idea which svn command I have to use to
checkout
the bcm43xx trunk? I would like to try it out and if
it
works make an rpm.
Regards, Patrick
development at: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ svn command is on there. haven't tried it yet myself.
Doh, thanks. That was the easy part. The driver needs the softmac solution from http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/ Guess it won't be a quick make; make install...
Regards, Patrick
"hg clone http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/source/" what package has the hg command?
Yes, I'm going to be in over my head trying to make it myself. Nothing new for me.
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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:31 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
"hg clone http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/source/" what package has the hg command?
Mercurial. But there is a snapshot of softmac available. See my other post for the link.
Regards, Patrick
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:12 +0100, Patrick wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:01 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
--- Patrick fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:28 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
I was reading my daily news sites and saw this: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12886
Anyone know anything about this? I am grateful to ndiswrapper for enabling wireless broadcom under linux, but I would so love to have native support for it.
Looks quite interesting. Thanks for the info. Any idea which svn command I have to use to checkout the bcm43xx trunk? I would like to try it out and if it works make an rpm.
Regards, Patrick
development at: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ svn command is on there. haven't tried it yet myself.
Doh, thanks. That was the easy part. The driver needs the softmac solution from http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/ Guess it won't be a quick make; make install...
For the brave that want to try it. You can get a snapshot of softmac at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/ It did not build for me on FC4 x86_64 though. In the bcm43xx driver directory you have to edit the linux version around line 857 if your kernel uses 2.6.15 kernel source but is called 2.6.14 as is the case on e.g. FC5t1 kernels (and perhaps others). Please let the list know if you succeed and how you made it work.
Regards, Patrick
--- Patrick fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:12 +0100, Patrick wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:01 -0800, Josh Coffman
wrote:
--- Patrick fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:28 -0800, Josh
Coffman
wrote:
I was reading my daily news sites and saw
this:
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12886
Anyone know anything about this? I am grateful to ndiswrapper for enabling
wireless
broadcom under linux, but I would so love to
have
native support for it.
Looks quite interesting. Thanks for the info. Any idea which svn command I have to use to
checkout
the bcm43xx trunk? I would like to try it out and
if it
works make an rpm.
Regards, Patrick
development at: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ svn command is on there. haven't tried it yet myself.
Doh, thanks. That was the easy part. The driver
needs the softmac
solution from http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/
Guess it won't be a
quick make; make install...
For the brave that want to try it. You can get a snapshot of softmac at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/ It did not build for me on FC4 x86_64 though. In the bcm43xx driver directory you have to edit the linux version around line 857 if your kernel uses 2.6.15 kernel source but is called 2.6.14 as is the case on e.g. FC5t1 kernels (and perhaps others). Please let the list know if you succeed and how you made it work.
Regards, Patrick
I might be able to stumble onto how to attempt building; like a blind squirrel, I occasionally find a nut... Anyway, it would help if you could post a short howto or where to start.
I create a dir for this, called bcm43xx. then I cd'd into it and ran svn to get the bcm43xx source which downloaded to a folder called 'trunk'. Then I used th hg command to get the softmac in the same folder and it downloaded to a folder called 'source'.
I'm running fc4 32 bit on an amd xp 1700+ and kernel 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.
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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:00 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
--- Patrick fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:12 +0100, Patrick wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:01 -0800, Josh Coffman
wrote:
--- Patrick fedora@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:28 -0800, Josh
Coffman
wrote:
I was reading my daily news sites and saw
this:
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12886
Anyone know anything about this? I am grateful to ndiswrapper for enabling
wireless
broadcom under linux, but I would so love to
have
native support for it.
Looks quite interesting. Thanks for the info. Any idea which svn command I have to use to
checkout
the bcm43xx trunk? I would like to try it out and
if it
works make an rpm.
Regards, Patrick
development at: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ svn command is on there. haven't tried it yet myself.
Doh, thanks. That was the easy part. The driver
needs the softmac
solution from http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/
Guess it won't be a
quick make; make install...
For the brave that want to try it. You can get a snapshot of softmac at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/ It did not build for me on FC4 x86_64 though. In the bcm43xx driver directory you have to edit the linux version around line 857 if your kernel uses 2.6.15 kernel source but is called 2.6.14 as is the case on e.g. FC5t1 kernels (and perhaps others). Please let the list know if you succeed and how you made it work.
Regards, Patrick
I might be able to stumble onto how to attempt building; like a blind squirrel, I occasionally find a nut... Anyway, it would help if you could post a short howto or where to start.
I create a dir for this, called bcm43xx. then I cd'd into it and ran svn to get the bcm43xx source which downloaded to a folder called 'trunk'. Then I used th hg command to get the softmac in the same folder and it downloaded to a folder called 'source'.
I'm running fc4 32 bit on an amd xp 1700+ and kernel 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.
Since softmac did not build on my box isn't it a waste of time to explain how to make it fail on other boxes too? This is highly experimental stuff and if you have no idea how to even build it than I think you are way out of your league here...
Quick and dirty way of building it:
0) read all the docs in the softmac and bcm43xx dirs 1) go into the softmac source and type make 2) if it actually builds type make install 3) go into the driver dir of bcm43xx and type make 4) if it actually builds type make install 5) read the README's or other docs what to do next
A better option is prolly to explore ndiswrapper. Google is your friend.
Regards, Patrick
Since softmac did not build on my box isn't it a waste of time to explain how to make it fail on other boxes too? This is highly experimental stuff and if you have no idea how to even build it than I think you are way out of your league here...
Quick and dirty way of building it:
- read all the docs in the softmac and bcm43xx dirs
- go into the softmac source and type make
- if it actually builds type make install
- go into the driver dir of bcm43xx and type make
- if it actually builds type make install
- read the README's or other docs what to do next
A better option is prolly to explore ndiswrapper. Google is your friend.
Regards, Patrick
I've got ndiswrapper working perfectly. built from source, btw. I get a directory does not exist error trying to make the softmac source. I'm not sure if I have the current kernel-devel, which I need.
i'll either figure it out or decide to wait for someone else.
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