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
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:25 PM, David McGuffeydavidmcguffey@verizon.net wrote:
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
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I recently got a Dell laptop that also has the dell 1395/broadcom 4312 card. I was unable/too lazy to get the ndiswrapper thing working.
Much googling eventually turned up this blog post: http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2008/10/03/linux-driv...
I grabbed the tarball from: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
Then I followed the directions, which amount pretty much to compiling the kernel module and installing it. I did this on Fedora 10, though I think it should work with CentOS as well.
HTH
-- Eric
On 12/06/2009, David McGuffey davidmcguffey@verizon.net wrote:
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.
Hi there i never got NetworkManager to work with bcm43xx but using network and wpa_supplicant with the required conf for WPA2 is rock solid for me
technically (according to linuxwireless.org) i should be using the b43 module but the bcm43xx in the stock CentOS kernel with v3 of the broadcom firmware works very well
mike
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 12:17 +0100, Michael Simpson wrote:
On 12/06/2009, David McGuffey davidmcguffey@verizon.net wrote:
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.
Hi there i never got NetworkManager to work with bcm43xx but using network and wpa_supplicant with the required conf for WPA2 is rock solid for me
technically (according to linuxwireless.org) i should be using the b43 module but the bcm43xx in the stock CentOS kernel with v3 of the broadcom firmware works very well
mike _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
My next step is to remove the bcm43xx driver and the bcm43xx-microcode5.fw firmeware and replace with the b43 driver.
I'm mostly into OS hardening and application security configuration...hardware and firmware is not my forte. How does one remove bcm43xx and install b43?
Guess I should start another topic about removing and replacing kernel modules.
Dave
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