Thanks for the instructions. I'm about to try bcm43xx-fwcutter on the firmware you suggested. As for your other questions, I'm running Red Hat Enterprise 5 Desktop and Workstation, and my kernel is 2.6.18. Being Red Hat, it's very hard to recompile the kernel and get it to work. I've gotten it to compile, but I'm having trouble with kernel panics when I boot with my new kernel. I could live with that if my wireless card worked in this kernel version :). The error right before the kernel panic is about svm_ something, if that makes sense to anyone.
-Peter On 8/8/07, Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2007/8/8, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I tried bcm43xx-fwcutter and and some kind of bcm43xx-softmac-sa > > package that I read about on a forum. The softmac thing had some > > compile time errors that looked like coding bugs. bcm43xx-fwcutter > > seemed to work, it extracted the firmware, I did make installfw, and > > then while modprobe bcm43xx didn't give me any errors, it also didn't > > show up on iwconfig. I didn't see anything else on google. > > it's very strange for softmac to give compile errors. maybe it gives you > warnings and then continue to compile, but these aren't great stuff. if it > gives you errors then the kernel wouldn't be compiled at all... > > may i know what your pc is and what distro are you using and in which > profile/version? it may a be of help to point you to right direction. the > instruction for making the bcm work that i have given are pretty general and > quite working for all distros, but sometimes there may happen to need > something else to do. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
