[FC-6 x86_64] Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 woes

[HomerJ]

I wanted to quickly follow-up on this post for the benefit of anybody
else who has this broadcom card ...

I received word from 1 of the lead wireless guys that this card is PCI
Express which isn't supported in the stock FC-6 kernels.  He pointed
me to his latest test kernel which has a patch to add support for
PCI-E broadcom cards, and this does get things working, somewhat.

http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc6

I'm still having troubles getting the card to work reliably, but
progress is definitely being made.  The current status can be followed
in this BugZilla report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213556

Cheers,
~Homer~

On 10/31/06, HomerJ <homer420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.  First time posting here but figured I'd give it a shot since
> I've not had luck yet at the fedoraforum ...
>
> I just bought HP dv2120 laptop which has a broadcom wireless card
> (lspci -vvv and -n output below). I did a fresh install of FC-6 GOLD
> x86_64, kernel is 2.6.18-1.2798 and everything seems to work great
> except the wireless.  From my googling it appears that this card
> should be supported by the bcm43xx module.  I've read the bcm43xx
> HOWTO in fedoraforum, as well as the excellent HOWTO David Woodhouse
> x-posted to the fedora lists, however no luck thus far. The bcm43xx
> module loads just fine, no errors in syslog or dmesg. I've tried a
> handful of the drivers listed in the bcm43xx-fwcutter README, and the
> fwcutter tool seems to extract the firmware fine. But NetworkManager
> isn't seeing any wireless devices, and attempting to manually bring up
> the interface also states that the device isn't present:
>
> [dave at smithers ~]$ ifup eth1
> bcm43xx device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
>
> Is this possibly related to running the x86_64 spin of FC6?  I'm
> considering doing an x86 install but would prefer not to as I really
> was hoping to run 64-bit on this laptop.
>
> I'm not sure how to further troubleshoot this problem. Any/all advice
> is greatly appreciated!
>
> ~Homer~

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