On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:51:09 Fred A. Miller wrote:
Does anyone know if the new Broadcom wifi driver for the recent kernel upgrade for 10.3 now works for the Broadcom "G" cards? I'd like to know before I destroy my setup on the laptop and try it. ;)
Thanks!
Fred
The short answer is YMMV. The long answer...I have a WPC54G (BCM4318-based) which still needs to use the previous bcm43xx driver. Only version 4.x cards will work with the new driver - version 3.x cards required the previous driver. In all cases you need a copy of the binary firmware (extracted from the Windows driver). I switched from Mandriva to OpenSuse 10.3 because Mandriver somehow broke support for my card in their latest release. It simply refused to work regardless of what driver and firmware version I tried. OpenSuse worked out of the box, even allowing me to enable the wireless card during installation (with a few manual steps undertaken in a text console between installation steps). I would do some reading (Google bcm43xx Linux) and determine exactly which Broadcom chipset and version you have, then check which driver supports it. My experience is that it works great under 10.3 with a version 3.x card using the bcm43xx driver. I don't know about the new driver as that only supports version 4.x cards. Regards, Rodney.
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