bcm43xx driver on FC5T3 driver doesn't work and freeze my machine.

[Patrick von der Hagen]

Alberto Patino wrote:
> Hi!
> I'am very excited with the inclusion of the bcm43xx driver in FC5 , I
> want to replace the venerable but awkward ndiswrapper driver,
> unfortunately the driver doesn't work for me and freeze my computer:
> 
> I have a laptop DELL Precision M60 with :
[...]
> I'd like to fix the problem, but I don't know what else to do!

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.
You should probably report your problesm to the bcm43xx-developers 
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev instead of 
fedora-testing, because it seems to be unlikely that this issue is 
fedora-specific.
-- 
CU,
    Patrick.