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ssaady
2006-03-27, 07:10 PM CST
I heard one of the big deals in FC5 woudl be kernel level support for the Broadcom 4300 series. Well, I installed tonight, and the GA version did the same as the Test 3 version of FC5... lspci sees my Broadcom 4306, but interface no workie.

I had NDISwrapper working and certainly could again, but is there any news on Broadcom support in the kernel?. I did some cursory searched to no avail.
Tellik
2006-03-27, 07:57 PM CST
I tried myself and eventually went to the ndiswrapper driver, and I'm up and working fines. I did notice that it detected my wireless card, but I could not actually use it. Still a step up from FC4.
ssaady
2006-04-10, 03:40 PM CDT
Has Broadcom 43xx support been abandoned? I have looked... I had hoped some subsequent kernels would get my Broadcom 4306 working... but no such luck...
kayin
2006-04-21, 04:57 PM CDT
This guide might help you with the Broadcom:

Install Guide (http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-livna/) :D
ssaady
2006-04-22, 02:12 PM CDT
Dayum dood... I just installed DestktopBSD.... It reads well... I will have to give that a try on my other laptop tonight.
TFrog
2006-04-23, 02:38 PM CDT
Just the other day I was at the project website for native Broadcom 43xx support. They show the development at 75% done. Another post at one of the other distro's forums stated that there would be kernel level support for Broadcom 43xx in kernel 2.6.17. Quite frankly, I'm hoping Linus Torvalds and his crew get kernel 3.0 out to solve a bunch of wireless issues. It seems they are focusing on these as a major issue for the next kernel. We can only wait and see.