Broadcom bcm43xx.ko

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

Getting curious (yeah I know, it finally killed that famous cat for the 
9th time)  I was wandering around in the lib/modules tree after the 
2096 kernel had been installed, and low, and behold even, there sits a 
driver module for the bcm43xx broadcom chips.  Its in:

/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.ko

Ok, fireing off the network settings utility in kde, I was going to try 
and setup a new network port as eth1, but I find that the only driver 
listed with a broadcom name in it is for the 'tigon', whatever that 
might be.

Now, I'd like to get rid of the ndiswrapper stuff on general principles, 
so where, and how, can I make the above driver available for linux to 
use?  What contains the list of drivers thats available for this 
utility, and which I might be able to add this driver too?

I might add that I have the system-config-network screen open and 
displaying the list of available drivers, but a perusal of the output 
of lsof -c system-config-ne isn't showing me any likely candidates.

Thanks for any clues.

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