Re: [CentOS] Need Broadcom 4311 firmware for CentOS 5

2009-03-04 Thread Robert Nichols
Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:29:48 -0600 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running >> on CentOS 5? I find lots of references to using fwcutter to get >> the needed firmware from Windows drivers, but there's a Catch-22:

Re: [CentOS] Need Broadcom 4311 firmware for CentOS 5

2009-03-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Robert Nichols wrote: >> Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running >> on CentOS 5? >> I was hoping that CentOS 5.3 might >> include a backported b43 driver, but I grabbed a preliminary >> version of the new kernel (

Re: [CentOS] Need Broadcom 4311 firmware for CentOS 5

2009-03-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
Robert Nichols wrote: > Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running > on CentOS 5? ... > I was hoping that CentOS 5.3 might > include a backported b43 driver, but I grabbed a preliminary > version of the new kernel (2.6.18-132), and it still has the > old bcm43xx.ko driver.

Re: [CentOS] Need Broadcom 4311 firmware for CentOS 5

2009-03-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:29:48 -0600 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running > on CentOS 5? I find lots of references to using fwcutter to get > the needed firmware from Windows drivers, but there's a Catch-22: > > Version of fwcutte

Re: [CentOS] Need Broadcom 4311 firmware for CentOS 5

2009-03-03 Thread Olaf Mueller
Robert Nichols wrote: Hello, > Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running > on CentOS 5? I have had that working on CentOS 5.2 on a acer extensa 5220 notebook with a BCM94311MCG wlan device and the following combination of software and firmware. - bcm43xx-fwcutter-006-3.f

[CentOS] Need Broadcom 4311 firmware for CentOS 5

2009-03-03 Thread Robert Nichols
Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running on CentOS 5? I find lots of references to using fwcutter to get the needed firmware from Windows drivers, but there's a Catch-22: Version of fwcutter that generate files for the bcm43xx driver in CentOS 5 don't recognize t