Getting bcm4318 wifi card to work with Fedora 6 & 8

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Rick Bilonick wrote:

>
> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 20:40 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried this method:
> > > > http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras
> > > > It worked flawlessly for me on a new HP with the  Broadcom Corporation
> > > > BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02).
> > > > Peter
> > >
> > > Yes, I had tried doing what this web page suggested too many times
> > > to count without any success.
> > >
> > > Now that I got the bcm4318 to work perfectly with ndiswrapper, I
> > > have absolutely no incentive whatsoever to try getting the bcm43xx
> > > driver to work. I don't see that it would be any better than using
> > > ndiswrapper, assuming the bcm43xx driver works at all.
> >
> > i have wireless working just fine on a laptop with a "Broadcom
> > Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)" using the b43 module.
> >
> > rday
>
> Unfortunately it does NOT appear to work with the bcm4318 card. At
> least, not on a Dell Inspiron 2200 running Fedora 8. It does work using
> ndiswrapper and so what would be the point of screwing up what works
> just fine to TRY to get b43 to work?

the "b43" driver appears to work just fine on another model of gateway
laptop i have that has the BCM4318.  but if what you have works,
you're right -- why mess with it?

rday
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