From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Randy Cushman <rcushman_linux@roadrunner.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BCM4306 Questions
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:14:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712121214.50522.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475F2DAD.4000708@roadrunner.com>
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 01:39:09 Randy Cushman wrote:
> Recently I retrofitted my older HP laptop with a "Broadcom 802.11b/g
> WLAN" miniPCI adapter. The adapter works well with Windows XP. Now I
> would like to be able to use the adapter with Linux.
>
> Question: Is there any hope of using this adapter with a native driver,
Yes.
> Complication: Neither bcm43xx-fwcutter nor b43-fwcutter recognizes the
> latest driver I found at HP. I figure it would be best for me to use
> this firmware because this is the only driver that I have found to be
> stable.
The driver stability is not related to the firmware.
You have to use this firmware:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware
> Question: Could someone instruct a mere applications software engineer
> on how to determine the values to insert into fwcutter_list.h to support
> this driver (or provide documentation to this effect)?
No. Use the officially supported firmware.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 0:39 BCM4306 Questions Randy Cushman
2007-12-12 11:14 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
[not found] ` <475FCB46.2030209@roadrunner.com>
2007-12-12 12:00 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-13 0:46 ` Randy Cushman
2007-12-13 1:17 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-12-14 1:43 ` Randy Cushman
2007-12-14 4:21 ` Pavel Roskin
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