one more time -- broadcom wireless on f7

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   at the risk of belabouring this issue (and i'm sure it's way too
> late to be worried about that *now* :-), i'm still interested in
> whether there's a known, reliable and deterministic way to get
> wireless working on f7 (and, additionally, f8t1) on my laptop which
> has a broadcom 4318 chip.

ndiswrapper is the way to go if you have a 4318. My laptop is a year old 
and has seen FCs 5-7 and only with FC7 has it been working.
Is your laptop 64bit? If so, keep in mind that you need to use the 64bit 
version of the broadcom drivers (bcmwl564.inf). 32bit won't work.

>   seriously, if wireless is really this much of a hassle, fedora is in
> for a rough ride.
AFAIK, broadcom wireless is the leader in the "Won't work" list of 
wireless adapters. Intel & Atheros don't seem to have that problem.


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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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