another fedora release...

[david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org (David Kramer)]

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....