Re: bcm43xx driver on FC5T3 driver doesn't work and freeze my machine.
On 2/28/06, Patrick von der Hagen <patrick(a)wudika.de> wrote:
You are lucky, my Dell Precision M60 freezes as soon as the module
is
loaded and so far I failed to get any valuable information in syslog.
However, bcm43xx isn't really considered stable, is it? So I just delete
the bcm43xx-module after each kernel-update to avoid having it activated
by fedora and stick to ndiswrapper.
Well, I have advances with the FC5 bcm43xx driver for my DELL M60.
In the first try I downloaded from the Dell site the latest broadcom
driver. This firmware caused my machine to freeze.
I read the kernel source Documentation/network/bcm43xx.txt and I saw a
list of drivers and versions. The first time I didn't understand the
version numbers associated with the http link.
But know I catch that the number is the version asociated withe the
particular drver. The dell newest driver doesn't match this number so
I looked up for a driver matching the version. (Fortunately I had
several dell drives stored in my lap)
Well I had 3 drivers version from DELL, I remove the newest driver I
installed with bcm43xx-fwcutter and I reinstalled a older version
matching the one pinpoint out in the bcm43xx.txt file.
Alberto P.
Now I can scan with iwconfig.
However i cannot do network connection yet with the wireless
interface, I'll try this later.