On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Shawn O'Shea <sh...@eth0.net> wrote: > Google results seem to suggest for Fedora that you have 2 options: > * Get the proprietary Broadcom firmware and use the fw-cutter tool to > extract the firmware and drop it in /lib/firmware > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#device_firmware_installation > > * Use the open rewrite/replacement from the OpenFWWF project which is > allegedly as simple as a yum install b43-openfwwf > Project: http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ > Forum post where I read about it: > http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=228418
There's an option #3 for Broadcom wifi cards, Broadcom's hybrid-wl driver, which I suspect is what Cole is running on Ubuntu, and which is also packaged for Fedora in the RPM Fusion repositories. http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/13/x86_64/kmod-wl-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.x86_64-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.7.x86_64.rpm > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Bill Sconce <sco...@in-spec-inc.com> wrote: >> >> I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago, from a public library in a >> small New Hampshire town, with the subject >> >> HELP SAVE US FROM MICROSOFT! >> >> (I am not making this up.) Such a plea caused me to do some >> perhaps-foolish things. I called the library; I volunteered >> to help them; I omitted to ask what hardware was involved. >> >> Turns out they had acquired a pair of Dell E5500 laptops (under >> a Gates Foundation grant, I believe), and of course the machines >> came with you-know-who's software. And not just the operating >> system, but a selection of add-on cruft including DeepFreeze and >> "role management" apps, the combination of which proved to be a >> nightmare and impossible to get or keep working. Eventually >> someone suggested to the library that the "Linux community" >> might be able to help; somehow my name came up, and I received >> the HELP SAVE US message. >> >> After an initial visit, I burned a Fedora 13 live CD for them >> to try, took it over to the library, booted it and showed it off. >> All OK. >> >> But then the zinger: of COURSE...they only use wireless. And >> of COURSE...the laptop has a Broadcom Wifi adapter. And of course >> it doesn't work. >> >> I've spent today so far researching. I searched my GNHLUG archives >> and found only one discussion, circa 2/22.(*) >> >> >From the Web it looks like "fwcutter", proprietary firmware >> copyrights, kernel modules...pretty ugly. (And Latitudes use >> Nvidia, but it does seem that Fedora 13 has the Nvidia part >> working.) >> >> Does anyone have experience, either with this laptop (Dell >> Dimension E5500) or with getting a $#! Broadcom adapter to work >> (a 4318 apparently) -- or experience which justifies a decision >> to just not do this? >> >> >> Many thanks! >> >> Be_careful_what_you_volunteer_for'ly yrs, >> >> -Bill >> >> >> (*) 2/22: Wherein Alan Johnson offers the clearly definitive advice, >> "In any case, be sure to steer clear of Broadcom". >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > -- Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
