nm vs wireless on my lappy

[David Hollis]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 18:13, David Hollis wrote:
> >On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:48 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Jan 10 16:04:38 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Firmware: no support for
> >> microcode
> >> rev > 0x128
> >
> >I don't know anything about the bcm43xx driver, but this line does seem
> >interesting.  Do you have the extracted firmware available?
> >
> The 'extracted firmware' would be what is wrapped up in ndiswrapper.  
> There is also an alpha quality driver in the kernel tree, and that is the 
> one that is the src of that particular message.  The extracted windows 
> driver doesn't report that.
> 

Check out http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

You should find a bcm43xx-fwcutter utility (actually, it looks like its
in Extras so you can yum it too).  Run that against the .SYS file you
have from Windows to extract the firmware.  Then the bcm43xx driver
should be able to operate and you can toss ndiswrapper out the window.

-- 
David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>