I have a new Dell toy on which I installed F10. I had been running F8 on a Vaio with a vanilla kernel that had the athos drivers compiled in.
Setup installed the PAE kernel. Using rpmfusion, I installed broadcom-wl along with the dependencies.
kernel broadcom-wl kmod-wl-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 kmod-wl
I am not at all sure why it installed two kmod-wl. Both are from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates???
Is the kernel dependency correct? Does this mean that - to use wireless - I should boot from the non-PAE kernel?
I hate to ask - I feel stupid - but what is the difference between rpmfusion free and nonfree? Is this a licensing issue?
Thanks
homburg@tips-Q.com wrote:
I am not at all sure why it installed two kmod-wl. Both are from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates???
One is the metapackage which always drags in the module for the latest kernel, the other is the actual package for your current kernel.
Is the kernel dependency correct? Does this mean that - to use wireless - I should boot from the non-PAE kernel?
You should install kmod-wl-PAE.
And are you sure you still need the proprietary driver? As far as I know, the b43 driver is getting support for more and more devices.
I hate to ask - I feel stupid - but what is the difference between rpmfusion free and nonfree? Is this a licensing issue?
Nonfree means it is not Free Software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Kevin Kofler
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:41:06 +0100 Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
homburg@tips-Q.com wrote:
You should install kmod-wl-PAE.
OK, everything working as expected including NM failover.
And are you sure you still need the proprietary driver? As far as I know, the b43 driver is getting support for more and more devices.
I will give it a try.
Thanks
Kevin Kofler wrote:
homburg@tips-Q.com wrote:
I am not at all sure why it installed two kmod-wl. Both are from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates???
One is the metapackage which always drags in the module for the latest kernel, the other is the actual package for your current kernel.
Is the kernel dependency correct? Does this mean that - to use wireless - I should boot from the non-PAE kernel?
You should install kmod-wl-PAE.
And are you sure you still need the proprietary driver? As far as I know, the b43 driver is getting support for more and more devices.
I originally hoped that my 4310 would be supported, as promised by both netdev posts and the Broadcom site, but in truth it isn't. I bought a USB modem to use until the new driver was done, now I'm looking for a replacement internal modem so my cat can stop playing with the USB device.
So "more and more" doesn't include older popular choices of laptop makers. :-(
I hate to ask - I feel stupid - but what is the difference between rpmfusion free and nonfree? Is this a licensing issue?
Nonfree means it is not Free Software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Kevin Kofler
Bill Davidsen wrote:
I originally hoped that my 4310 would be supported, as promised by both netdev posts and the Broadcom site, but in truth it isn't.
Have you followed the instructions to extract the firmware? You need to extract the firmware to use the b43 driver, it cannot be shipped with b43 for legal reasons.
Kevin Kofler