Re: f8t3 live: no networking on presario 700

[sean darcy <seandarcy2 gmail com>]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:17 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> > I have compaq presario 714n notebook, Intel G965 chipset. wireless is 
> > Broadcom BCM94311MCG mini-pci, which shows up in lspci.
>
> Broadcom does not make firmware for their wireless cards available in a
> freely redistributable form, so Fedora cannot distribute this firmware.
> Thus, it cannot work out of the box.  You can generate a firmware file
> using the b43-fwcutter utility, but this doesn't help much for the live
> environment.  Feel free to request that Broadcom provide freely
> redistributable firmware for their wireless products!
>
> Jeremy
Well, would this work:

I'm using live to install on a 20gig partition that already has windows 
installed.

Can I install f8 ( from dvd or livecd ), download the fw43-cutter rpm 
under windows, use ntfs-utils to copy to the linux partition, install 
it, and Voila! ??

Is fw43-cutter on the dvd?

sean