Wireless and the BCM43xx driver

[Larry Hartman]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 03:03:32 am Jon Aquilina wrote:
> im surpised hardy didnt automatically detect the restricted driver and
> asked u which ones to enable. for me it does on my old laptop even my
> restricted video card driver
>
Oh it recognizes the hardware properly, and as a result it does install the 
appropriate BCM43xx reversed-engineered driver.  However, a large number of 
people (me included) are unable to get the reverse-engineered driver to work 
on BCM4318 Air Force One.  This isn't for lack of trying.  The post I linked 
to has hundreds (possibly thousands) of people troubleshooting various 
hardware configurations with this wifi card.  That is why we have opted for 
ndiswrapper used in the how-to.

It is also known that ndiswrapper found in the hardy repositories is a version 
to old for this wifi to work, hence the additional instructions to download 
and install the latest version from the project homepage.  

Uggh.  It doesn't seem as though Broadcomm is gonna release proprietary 
drivers for Linux yet a while, so for those of us who do not wish to spend 
time/money to switch hardware are stuck in the dark ages.....at least ATI is 
improving.


Larry