Arne Chr. Jorgensen wrote:
The hardware is a HP-compac 6715b, with network chipset from Broadcom. In some previous release of Fedora, I tried to get it working with Bcm43xx, but had to compile my own driver. Something I failed doing, some libraries or headers was not in the release.Frequent updates of packages drowned me.
Adam Williamson wrote:
- " wl is a proprietary module and is not part of Fedora, hence your
problem is unlikely to be addressed on this list :) "
I was unaware that Broadcom had any driver for Linux. I was certain I was running some precompiled b43-module. To patch/compile - make your own version, is too demanding. And your left on some different page then the rest.
The b43 driver is part of Fedora. You need to follow the firmware installation instructions to get it to work. (Basically, you have to download a specific version of the Broadcom proprietary driver (I think they expect a MIPS binary from OpenWRT, not the x86 version you're using, the instructions give the exact link) and run b43-fwcutter on it (which will extract the firmware out of the binary).)
Kevin Kofler