On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:00 -0400, centos-request at centos.org wrote: > Message: 64 > 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 > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Message-ID: > <6bb609560906110814t3c41faaci58d5b92ed7f42985 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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