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This very afternoon, I helped a friend with an Acer 5000 get wireless working with that same chip. I used fwcutter, which hunted down the firmware and installed everything perfectly. Rebooted, and wireless just worked. This is on Ubuntu Jaunty. Jarod Wilson wrote: > 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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