Question regarding bcm43xx driver in FC5 kernels...

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:02 -0500, Mike Leahy wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I've been discussing some problems I have with the bcm43xx drivers (for
> wireless cards based on the Broadcom 43xx chipsets) on their users list
> (bcm43xx-dev at lists.berlios.de).  As you can see from the response to my
> latest message below, it appears that the bcm43xx driver being released
> with the kernels is not up-to-date.  I have only been able to get my
> wireless card working in FC5 by manually deleting the bcm43xx module
> from the kernel, then (re)installing ndiswrapper.  As the bcm43xx is
> included with every FC5 kernel update, I have to do this procedure
> pretty frequently, since I'm generally keeping up with the development
> updates.
> 
> Larry Finger's reply below suggests that maybe if the latest bcm43xx
> source were used, this wouldn't be an issue.  Is this something that
> will likely be taken care of in the near future? I think it wouldn't be
> a bad thing if this was updated, as there are plenty of people out there
> with bcm43xx wireless cards on laptops. If it works out of the box, then
> I imagine it will be much easier for laptop users that are dependant on
> wireless capability (e.g., myself) to start using FC5 when it is finally
> released. I did try to compile the driver myself from the latest source,
> but the combination of my lack of experience with the need to reboot
> into Windows in order to search/discuss issues lead me to give up on it
> after a couple days.

It appears to be an SVN pull from
svn://svn.berlios.de/bcm43xx/trunk/driver on Jan 14th.  3 1/2 weeks old.
And the softmac code appears to be a git pull from around Jan 13th.

Dan