another fedora release...

[Jarod Wilson]

On 06/09/2009 07:51 PM, Frank DiPrete wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Either native or using ndiswrapper the windows driver is required for
> the BCM4312.

Nope, windows driver isn't necessarily required for b43. The BCM4312 in 
my PowerBook G4 had its firmware extracted from the Mac OS X driver, and 
I've set up another BCM43xx card using b43 extracting the firmware from 
one of the tarballs the openwrt folks distribute. Splitting hairs, I 
know, but no, you don't actually have to have a Windows driver, just a 
binary Broadcom blob from *somewhere*. :)

--jarod