wifi, ndiswrapper and 2.6.17 kernels...

[Kim Lux]

I run FC4 on an HP ZD7280 laptop that has a Broadcom wifi modem in it.
I've been running it with ndiswrapper on a variety of kernels for the
last 2 years.  It has worked great. 

So, this weekend I upgraded to a 2.6.17 kernel and now wifi doesn't
work.  And I can't get it working.  I tried ndiswrapper versions 1.14
and 1.23.  uname -r  = 2.6.17-1.2143_FC4smp.

I heard that 2.6.17 ships with bcm43xx.   The driver files for my wifi
modem are bcmwl5 and bcmwl5a.

/sbin/lsmod | grep bcm43
bcm43xx               440009  0
ieee80211softmac       36673  1 bcm43xx
ieee80211              37641  2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac

/sbin/lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
<empty>

What am I missing ?  How do I get it running ?


 

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Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.