Broadcom 4318 wireless again ...

Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage at gmx.de
Sun Aug 26 18:05:26 UTC 2007


Ian Chapman wrote:
> Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>> Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>>> See the following link on how to switch to the new driver:
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-July/msg02069.html
>> Sorry, it should read of course: '... switch to the old driver'
>
> I tried it but in the latest kernel there is only the bcm43xx driver 
> and it insists on V4 firmware. There is no bcm43xx-mac80211 so maybe 
> this has been renamed to bcm43xx?
No bcm43xx is still bcm43xx, and it works with v3 firmware for me 
(wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o, see link above). bcm43xx-mac80211 now has been 
renamed to b43. Perhaps is this one who gets loaded and craves for the 
v4 firmware, see your dmesg output.
Klaus




More information about the users mailing list