FC5 with bcm43xx support (HOWTO)

[David Woodhouse]

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 20:21 +0100, Robert Allerstorfer wrote:
> *****: Sorry, it's not posible to extract "bcm43xx_microcode11.fw".
> *****: Extracting firmware from an old driver is bad. Choose a more recent one.
> *****: Luckily bcm43xx driver doesn't include microcode11 uploads at the moment.
> *****: But this can be added in the future...

> Is this all fine or could the message regarding
> "bcm43xx_microcode11.fw" cause a problem?


It's fine.

> I tried the second suggested method
> 
> cp /usr/share/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003/modprobe.bcm43xx /etc/modprobe.d
> 
> however, after restarting, the 'bcm43xx' Module did not get loaded
> (checked with 'lsmod').

Hm. I think there's something weird going on with udevstart, which I
think is supposed to generate 'hotplug' events for every PCI device in
the system at startup. It _isn't_ generating hotplug events for the
network card, unless the driver is already loaded -- which is fairly
useless since if the driver is already loaded we don't need to load it.

I'm a bit lost as to how this is all supposed to work these days. Bill?


Robert, just add 'modprobe bcm43xx' to /etc/rc.local in the meantime :)

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