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Mark Haney wrote: |
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> Joseph Jon Booker wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:28:03 -0500 |
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>> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>>> Quick question, is it still necessary to patch the 2.6.26 kernel for |
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>>> broadcom wireless cards? I've not found a new broadcom driver |
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>>> in .26, so I'm hanging on to .25 for now, but I'd like to use .26. |
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>>> Anyone using it with broadcom cards? How did you set it up? |
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>> What does `lspci|grep Broadcom` say? I've got 4311 (rev2) and it works |
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>> fine on .25 and .26 without patches. |
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> Mine's a 4306. My problem is, I don't see (in .26) the module for the |
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> Broadcom cards. I know using my old config from .25 that the card |
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> isn't even seen since no module is built. So, how did you get your |
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> 4311 working? NDISWRAPPER? |
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Make sure you turn on the MAC80211 stack first under networking -> |
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wireless, the bcm43xx driver then appears under device drivers -> |
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network device drivers -> wireless LAN -> wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11). My |
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4306 is working happily with it and much better behaved with Kismet. |
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