R: Re: [was (no subject)] Wireless in F11

[Bill Davidsen]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 26 June 2009 14:53:07 Z3N58 at libero.it wrote:
>> Hi,
>> i'm very sorry for the object, i can assure that wasn't intenctional, i
>> forgot!
>> so, using the command lspci the answer is: 06:00.0 Network controller:
>> Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
>> i don't know lther cmd to know
>> wich version of broadcom i have.
>> reading tha page http://www.dnmouse.
>> org/broadcom.html i can understand that is supported but afther is written
>> "only tha 2.4 Ghz part" and i don't understand if with my cpu (AMD Sempron™
>> SI- 42  2,1 GHz, cache L2 = 512 KB) will works!
>>
>> thank's everybody for the
>> answers...
>> ivan
>>
> OK - the chipset, which is the important bit, is BCM4312 revision 01.  If you 
> put 
> 
> linux  BCM4312 
> 
> into google or any other search engine you will find lots of answers.  At a 
> quick look it seems to be saying that there is not a built-in driver for this, 
> and you may need to use ndiswrapper with the windows driver.  I did see more 
> than one site with explanations of how to do this.  (Of course as newer 
> kernels are released this may change, and may have already changed.)
> 
> I suggest that you look through the list that the search returns for an entry 
> in your own language that gives a good explanation.  If you can't see one, 
> find a promising one in another language  then try google-translate - it won't 
> give a perect translation but usually it's good enough to understand.
> 
Depending on whether you want to be perfectly open source politically correct or 
just have a working system with no illegal software, you could try the kmod-wl 
driver from rpmfusion. Works for me, I'm happy to say, and I didn't have to buy 
new hardware.

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