acer laptop + broadcom wireless + ndiswrapper

[zantoburgo]

Hello,
sometime back when installing FC10, i tried installing ndis wrapper, and later i installed the broadcom driver bcm431 (i think). also i didn't remove the ndis wrapper.

all was fine untill a yesterday when ndis wrapper and some related packages got updated which somehow caused wireless to stop working. lspci showed the hardware present.

to get it to work, i did a yum erase ndis-wrapper, followed by a reboot.

it may not be the most elegent way, but it worked for me.

hardware specs:
acer aspire 4720Z (mine has broadcom wireless, others may have atheros)

[Camberwell]

on my brothers acer netbook we just yum installed kmod-wl from the freshrpms repo's and hey presto up she came.

and because its yum installed, any kernel updates and kmod-wl is taken care of with it.

I must also mention that kmod-wl is only for broadcom wireless devices.

[bbfuller]

You might also care to know that the broadcom-wl driver only works with some of the range of broadcom cards.

The built in b43 driver will work with most of the rest after the installation of firmware.

[Camberwell]

Aaah yes good point, forgot to mention that

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

"These packages contain Broadcom's IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux® device driver for use with Broadcom's BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4321-, and BCM4322-based hardware." - Broadcom site

thanks

Martin

[zantoburgo]

i guess what i really meant to say was that, having both ndis-wrapper and the broadcom driver worked well until a couple of days back when an upgrade related to ndis prevented the wireless from working.

anyway, the good thing was that i had to look at "yum erase"

at some time i even mulled installing fc11, but i got fc10 setup all nice and sweet. just curious though what is the biggest difference in moving to 11?