another fedora release...

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 3:05 PM, John Abreau wrote:

> It's an Acer Aspire One, ruby red with a 10-inch screen.
> The label on the bottom says "D150-1920", and "lspci"
> shows that it has a Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
> wireless NIC.

Huh. The b43 driver *should* work for that chip, I believe, but b43  
does require that you hunt down a binary driver file and extract  
firmware from it using b43-fwcutter. Could be a newer revision of the  
4312 or something though.

> Yes, i added the rpmfusion repos before I installed broadcom-wl.
> There were a couple other procedures I tried that didn't work,
> before I ran across the one that used broadcom-wl.

I'm assuming the b43 route was one of the others that didn't work?

fwiw, broadcom-wl is at least kept reasonably up-to-date by Broadcom,  
because Dell uses these chips in their netbooks and laptops that ship  
with Ubuntu on them, and after some earlier versions absolutely SUCKED  
for throughput, updated versions of the driver actually did quite  
respectable for 802.11n throughput. (I have two BCM43xx 802.11n cards  
in my possession).



> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Jarod Wilson<jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>  
> wrote:
>> On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:29 PM, John Abreau wrote:
>>
>>> I'm planning to load it onto my netbook tonight, if I get out of the
>>> office early enough. I just loaded the preview release at the
>>> Installfest
>>> a bit over a week ago, and I haven't done much with the thing yet.
>>>
>>> Someone at the Installfest had asked me whether the Acer's wireless
>>> was working.  Wireless didn't work out of the box when I frst
>>> installed
>>> the preview release, but after I installed the package "broadcom-wl"
>>> and rebooted, wireless worked fine.
>>
>>
>> Which netbook? My own Acer netbook (Aspire One, 8.9" screen) came  
>> with
>> an Atheros wifi chip, which does work out of the box.
>>
>> Note that broadcom-wl is the partially-closed-source driver direct
>> from Broadcom for their most recent (particularly n-capable) chips,
>> and is found in the RPM Fusion repo, not the Fedora repo.
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jerry Feldman<gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> I plan to do a full install this weekend, and preserving my
>>>> existing Fedora
>>>> 10.  Additionally, instead of the usual method of downloading,
>>>> burning a
>>>> DVD, I will either do a network install like I did with Fedora 10
>>>> (eg.
>>>> placing the isolinux and corresponding initrd into my /boot
>>>> directory), or
>>>> an HD install directly from the iso. Probably install directly from
>>>> the iso
>>>> since I'll want to have F11 for the next installfest.
>>>>
>>>> On 06/09/2009 09:43 AM, Stephen Adler wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like fedora 11 is out, but not quite announced yet....
>>>>> I'd love
>>>>> to read posts of those brave enough to upgrade their systems....
>>
>>
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