SPAM: [TAG] Using Broadcom Wifi with Linux

[John Karns]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Tom Brown wrote:

> Thanks for the help. From the feedback I'm getting it looks like I'm going to 
> have to move to the 2.6 kernel, which I really don't want to do. Of course, 
> moving to the 2.6 kernel puts me behind the eight-ball when it comes to 
> running Win4Lin. I really wish the folks supporting Linux didn't assume the 
> users were all rocket scientists. It's like forcing someone to learn how to 
> re-build the engine and transmission just to drive a car.

Well, as I said, I tried the 2.6 with SuSE 9.0 as well, with the same 
negative result - so although my first thought was that the problem was 
due to the 2.4 kernel, my revised opinion is that it may have more to do 
with the version of glibc or some other core component (like modutils) in 
SuSE 9.0 [1].  But perhaps you'll have a little better luck.  If so, I'd 
be interested in hearing about it. [2]


[1] ndiswrapper is *supposed* to work with kernel versions 2.4.23 and newer.

[2] I have yet to find any reports of someone getting the broadcom ndis 
driver to work with SuSE 9.0!

-- 
John Karns