kernel bug

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 08:00 -0800, Bayard Coolidge wrote:
> So, I went back and attempted to configure Fedora 8 for wireless.
> After
> a couple of weeks of poking around, I came to the conclusion that it
> ain't gonna work - it seems that that the 2.6.23 kernel series just
> won't
> work with ndiswrapper, and that's what F8 runs. It purportedly will
> work
> with 2.6.22 and it's supposedly (going to be) fixed in 2.6.24 or .25,
> but

There's a 2.6.24.2 kernel in F8 updates-testing, if you feel like trying
a 2.6.24 kernel.

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing upgrade kernel

> I would LOVE to try the b43 driver (which is the newest on the block)
> but I can't find a b43_fwcutter (just a bcm43xx_fwcutter), so I can't
> extract/create the necessary 'bcm43xx_microcode5.fw' file (or its
> b43 equivalent).

It went into rawhide just recently.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/Packages/b43-fwcutter-011-3.fc9.x86_64.rpm

Or 'yum --enablerepo=development install b43-fwcutter'.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com