Larry, Thanks for letting me know - I'll keep a lookout for it in the updates with FC5. I'm well aware of how lucky I am to have this working - I did notice that 4k stack issue, but I also hacked around with my configuration quite a bit until at some point it just seemed to start working with ndiswrapper.
Michael: WRT what was going wrong, all I can say is that the driver appeared to load (e.g., I could get wireless info from the card using iwconfig when the bcm43xx driver was loaded), but any time I tried to modify the wireless card's configuration with iwconfig or scan with iwlist, I would get a message saying the functionality wasn't supported for that card. Maybe somebody can suggest what I should look for, so that when I get the next kernel update I can try again and give more in-depth info. Thanks again, Mike Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: >> On Monday 06 February 2006 08:22, Mike Leahy wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the tip. >>> >>> I eventually abandoned bcm43xx in favour of ndiswrapper. Maybe bcm43xx >>> driver works for some people...but never for me. I've been running >>> FC5T2 (and subsequent updates) - every kernel that gets released for FC5 >>> has bcm43xx pre-installed. Ordinarily I would consider that to be nice, >>> but I can't even scan for access points with that driver (i.e., using >>> iwlist scan), let alone actually connect. Thus, every time the kernel >>> gets updated, I have to rip out this driver and reinstall ndiswrapper - >>> if I don't take the driver out, it will always hijack the card on me, >>> even if I force everything to point to ndiswrapper (I'm sure there's >>> something I'm missing there). I hope development continues to >>> progress...or maybe it has, and the version being distributed with FC5 >>> is out of date... >> >> >> If you don't tell us what's going wrong, it will never be fixed. >> > > There was a bug in the softmac scanning routine that was fixed last > week. How long it will take for the patch to propagate through the > system is uncertain, but scanning will work when it does. > > My understanding is that Fedora builds and distributes a kernel with 4K > stacks. If that is true, you are lucky that the Windows driver works. It > was written to a standard that has 12K stack limits. > > Larry > > _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
