DJA wrote: > I have a Linksys WPC54GSv2 Wifi card that was working fine in FC6 - > until I did a recent Yum update. It uses the bcmwl5.sys driver. > > Now 80211_softmac insists on a 4.xx or newer - I assume because of a > buffer overflow exploit of the 3.x driver. Linksys does not offer an > updated driver for this card. I downloaded a more recent driver from > Linksys (bcmwl6.sys) for different card (supposedly, all firmware files > for the BCM43xx work for any card using that chipset, regardless of > brand), but fwcutter doesn't recognize that file. > > Anyone know where I can find a version 4 bcmwl5.sys file. I've googled > myself to death - even checked Microsoft's site with no luck so far. > > (I've never gotten Ndiswrapper to work, BTW, whereas using > bcm43xx_fwcutter does work, or did). >
Just in case you haven't seen: http://www.filewatcher.com/_/?q=bcmwl5.sys Umm, [hopeful] maybe it's a fwcutter problem and they will catch up to the yum update before long? I presume you've looked around at https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev but have you posted this question there? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
