[Wftl-lug] F7 wireless

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:57:06 -0400
Kevin <norwood.kevin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am wondering has anyone got bcm4311 working under F7 amd 64 yet? I can 
> get it to light up but it will not gain dhcp I have tried everything I 
> tried before with FC6 and Ubuntu but to no avail. Please help and thanx

I don't have a 4311 - mine is a 4306, which works with the bcm43xx driver,
fortunately for me... 

It looks like the 4311 is only supported from kernel 2.6.20.6
onwards. See

http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices

If you use the bcm43xx you will also need the ( closed source ) firmware.
See for example

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bcm43xx/

where the bcm  "fwcutter" is mentioned. The fwcutter grabs the firmware
for you. 

On ubuntu the firmware is directly obtainable, as an installable
package, from a third party site:

http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/feisty-cafuego/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb

( that's a direct link to the .deb file - the website is
http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/dists/feisty-cafuego/bcm43xx/ )

I "know" cafuego from IRC , and his packages are trustworthy, by the way.

I don't know if FC has an rpm available for the fwcutter or the complete
firmware "à-la-cafuego", but it might be worth checking.  Of course none of
this will actually work,  unless your kernel is as mentioned above.

The other possibility might be to use ndiwrapper - but I don't know about
that, since I use the bcm43xx on  PPC Mac iBook G4 , so ugly wrappers for
windows drivers are out of the question ;-)

Peter