On Sunday 03 June 2007, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:40:47 +0200
Danesh Daroui
wrote: Hi,
Yes I used YaST. My wireless card exists there too. I changed the module name to "ndiswrapper". Thats all I did. My wireless card is Broadcom.
There is a Broadcom driver in 10.2 bcm43xx.ko. It needs firmware. You don't need NDISWRAPPER. You can use bcm43xx-fwcutter to cut the firmware out of the Windows Broadcom .sys file. Works much better than NDISWRAPPER.
However this is not much better than Ndiswrapper. You still need the windows binary blob, and you need to find the right version of fwcutter for the specific .sys file you have. Fwcutter always lags the release of new drivers, often by some months. Ndiswrapper just runs the windows drivers and you are usually up and running in no time. If Fwcutter got you free of binary blobs it might be attractive, but untill it does I just don't see the advantage. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org