I also tried the bcm43xx-fwcutter on the drivers which "worked" with the ndiswrapper that I downloaded from dell. I have not tried the ones that came with the computer because they are vista drivers. Would it do any good to try the vista drivers?
If the bcm43xx drivers won't work what has to be done get this thing working and is there someone who has the time to get me up to speed on the driver development so I can do it. Before answering this remember I have no driver or Linux development experience. I am an enterprise application developer who works in Java.
I will be willing to join the development of this project if I can get some help getting started and if it will get my wireless working correctly.
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Dru Devore
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card
rev 02
From: Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, August 13, 2007 6:48 pm
To: Dru Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Dru Devore wrote:
> I am not wanting to use the ndiswrapper. I only included that
> information in the chance that there might be some information from it
> could be useful.
>
> For the information you need and some more...
> Ubuntu 7.04
> HP dv9000
> AMD dual core thing.
>
> This is from the firmware in the Ubuntu dist.
> dmsg | grep bcm
> [ 9122.176000] bcm43xx: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel
> tainted.
> [ 9122.180000] bcm43xx driver
> [ 9122.188000] bcm43xx: Unsupported 80211 core revision 13
> [ 9122.192000] bcm43xx: Invalid PHY Revision 9
Are you sure Ubuntu distributed the firmware? Due to copyright restrictions, no one can distribute
such firmware. What is allowed is distributing the program used to extract the firmware from a
driver built for Windows or other operating systems. That driver may be the one installed when you
bought the computer, or one downloaded from the webpile of a card vendor.
Your card is never going to work with bcm43xx. Those revisions of the 80211 core and PHY are not in
the V3 firmware, which is what that driver uses. It supports up to 80211 core revision 10 and PHY
revision 8.
Support for this unit will have to be in b43, which uses V4 firmware, but I don't think it is there
yet. Our reverse-engineering group is down to two people and they are busy doing other things at the
moment. If anyone reading this would like to help the bcm43xx project, that is where we need help. I
would like to help there myself, but I'm contaminated because I'm working on the Linux driver.
Larry
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