one more time -- broadcom wireless on f7

Martin Marques martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Tue Aug 14 17:27:30 UTC 2007


Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> 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.

Any link on where to download the driver? I don't seem to find it, or if 
I find it, it is a windows executable. :-(

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