[CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless

Thu Jun 11 23:25:23 UTC 2009
David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizon.net>

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:00 -0400, centos-request at centos.org wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:14:17 -0700
> From: Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless
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> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:54 AM, David
> McGuffey<davidmcguffey at 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