bcm43xx_mac80211 (was Re: Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4 (6.93))

[alan]

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Kelly wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:39 pm alan wrote:
>> Is there going to be an option for people with the older hardware or are
>> we just screwed?
>
> To be entirely frank (and having to say this sucks because of the large amount
> of work that has gone into making the native driver for Linux), I gave up
> even TRYING to get my laptop's wireless card (Broadcom bcm4320) and just used
> Ndiswrapper with the Windows driver.

The agrivating part of this is that it works fine in FC6 with the old 
firmware.  This is a recient change that breaks anyone with the pre-4 
chipset revision.

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