On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:01 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
Has anyone managed to get a BCM4306 wifi card working with rawhide? I've been trying for quite a while, and with just about every firmware version I can locate but still not had any luck.
You are in luck. I just went thru that with a card I was installing this week.
I followed the instructions from here, http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=115572 which is linked to from here: http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html
I had to use the driver gotten in the 80211g.zip package from the link on that page because the version on my CD would not create the proper firmware package.
With the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2617.2.1.fc6), I don't even seem to get a list of AP's that are around. From a quick google, it looks as though the bcm43xx driver might be a fair bit out of the actual bcm43xx development - as there seems to be a patch back in July that *may* fix this IRQ issue.
I am using FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
dmesg shows the following:
Is anyone successfully using this card? Mine is in a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop.
My system is a desktop and the card is an AirLink PCI card.
-- Steven Haigh
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