Broadcom 4318 wireless again ...

Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage at gmx.de
Sun Aug 26 18:05:26 UTC 2007


Ian Chapman wrote:
> Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>> Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>>> See the following link on how to switch to the new driver:
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-July/msg02069.html
>> Sorry, it should read of course: '... switch to the old driver'
>
> I tried it but in the latest kernel there is only the bcm43xx driver 
> and it insists on V4 firmware. There is no bcm43xx-mac80211 so maybe 
> this has been renamed to bcm43xx?
No bcm43xx is still bcm43xx, and it works with v3 firmware for me 
(wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o, see link above). bcm43xx-mac80211 now has been 
renamed to b43. Perhaps is this one who gets loaded and craves for the 
v4 firmware, see your dmesg output.
Klaus




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