On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:00 -0400, centos-request@centos.org wrote:
Message: 64 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:14:17 -0700 From: Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Message-ID: 6bb609560906110814t3c41faaci58d5b92ed7f42985@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:54 AM, David McGuffeydavidmcguffey@verizon.net wrote:
Last problem is with the Broadcom 4312 wireless device. ?Again, did
some
research and found two ways. ?One was the Broadcom provided Linux driver, and the other was the guidance on how to use fw-cutter from linuxwireless.com.
There are some possibly-related notes on this page in the wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/HP/Pavilion-ze5300_Series
Short summary: neither bcm43xx nor ndiswrapper are a perfect solution, and you may need to blacklist the bcm43xx driver to use ndiswrapper.
That wiki entry was originally written for CentOS 5.0. I'm currently running 5.3 with the supplied bcm43xx driver and it has some problems with duplicate/dropped packets so the performance is suboptimal, but it does work.
Thanks...
According to the guidance a linuxwireless.com the b43 driver (not bcm43xx or b43legacy) should work with the 4312 device.
If I can't get bcm43xx and bcm43xx-microcode5.fw to work, then I may try to install the b43 driver and blacklist bcm43xx.
Dave