On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:12 +0100, Patrick wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:01 -0800, Josh Coffman
wrote:
> >
> > --- Patrick <fedora(a)puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:28 -0800, Josh
Coffman
> > > wrote:
> > > > I was reading my daily news sites and saw
this:
> > > >
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12886
> > > >
> > > > Anyone know anything about this?
> > > > I am grateful to ndiswrapper for enabling
wireless
> > > > broadcom under linux, but I would so love to
have
> > > > native support for it.
> > >
> > > Looks quite interesting. Thanks for the info.
> > > Any idea which svn command I have to use to
checkout
> > > the
> > > bcm43xx trunk? I would like to try it out and
if it
> > > works
> > > make an rpm.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Patrick
> > >
> >
> > development at:
> >
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
> > svn command is on there.
> > haven't tried it yet myself.
>
> Doh, thanks. That was the easy part. The driver
needs the softmac
> solution from
http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/
Guess it won't be a
> quick make; make install...
For the brave that want to try it. You can get a
snapshot of softmac at
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/
It did not build for me on FC4 x86_64 though. In the
bcm43xx driver
directory you have to edit the linux version around
line 857 if your
kernel uses 2.6.15 kernel source but is called
2.6.14 as is the case on
e.g. FC5t1 kernels (and perhaps others).
Please let the list know if you succeed and how you
made it work.
Regards,
Patrick
I might be able to stumble onto how to attempt
building; like a blind squirrel, I occasionally find a
nut... Anyway, it would help if you could post a short
howto or where to start.
I create a dir for this, called bcm43xx. then I cd'd
into it and ran svn to get the bcm43xx source which
downloaded to a folder called 'trunk'. Then I used th
hg command to get the softmac in the same folder and
it downloaded to a folder called 'source'.
I'm running fc4 32 bit on an amd xp 1700+ and kernel
2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.
Shin zen ni rei
-j
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