Question regarding bcm43xx driver in FC5 kernels...
Mike Leahy
mgleahy at golden.net
Wed Feb 8 17:54:29 UTC 2006
Dave/List,
I just updated to the latest FC5 kernel as of last night (#1914). I
still have the same problem as I did for all previous copies of the
bcm43xx driver that comes with the kernel. That is, during the boot I
get errors saying something like "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or
directory", and when I try to scan for access points using iwlist, I get
a message for the wireless device saying that the hardware doesn't
support scanning. If it adds any insight to my problem, I'm trying to
use this with a Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA card, which has a Broadcom 4306
rev 2 chipset.
I may make another attempt at manually compiling the driver from source,
but I don't think I'll have the time to do so for at least a week or
two. So, I guess for now I'll just stick to removing
bcm43xx/reinstalling ndiswrapper for any kernel updates.
Mike
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:02:30PM -0500, Mike Leahy wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I've been discussing some problems I have with the bcm43xx drivers (for
> wireless cards based on the Broadcom 43xx chipsets) on their users list
> (bcm43xx-dev at lists.berlios.de). As you can see from the response to my
> latest message below, it appears that the bcm43xx driver being released
> with the kernels is not up-to-date. I have only been able to get my
> wireless card working in FC5 by manually deleting the bcm43xx module
> from the kernel, then (re)installing ndiswrapper. As the bcm43xx is
> included with every FC5 kernel update, I have to do this procedure
> pretty frequently, since I'm generally keeping up with the development
> updates.
You didn't mention which kernel you were running. There was an update
yesterday which should bring us up to date again. It's lagged a little
over the last few weeks whilst Dave Woodhouse (who has been taking care
of syncing this with upstream) was attending LCA.
ah the joys of out-of-tree drivers.
Dave
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