[Sugar-devel] Broadcom Driver installations was Re: SOAS on Dell mini inspiron 10

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Sebastian, Mel,
>
> How is it going getting broadcom support incorporated upstream?  Will
> this be in the next release?

I included the b43-openfwwf package some time ago in the SoaS snapshots, 
but I'm not sure on which broadcom hardware it will exactly work. So 
there is an open implementation in Fedora now, but... it needs testing.

--Sebastian

> thanks!
> Caroline
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Russell Brown
> <misterruss at googlemail.com <mailto:misterruss at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 22 Aug 2009, at 11:31, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com
>     <mailto:pbrobinson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>      > Hi Russell,
>      >
>      >> I just bought a Dell mini 10 to try SOAS on. I usually run SOAS
>     on an
>      >> ASUS 701 and it all works lovely. On the Dell mini 10 the
>     trackpad is
>      >> incredibly (unusabley) sensitive. Also the wireless networking
>     is not
>      >> working. I bought the mini 10 with the upgraded Dell wireless 1510
>      >> half mini card (802.1n). If I boot into the pre-installed Ubuntu
>     8.04
>      >> the wireless networking works (and the trackpad is not mental).
>      >
>      > I presume you got the Dell Mini 10v (not the plain 10). The plain 10
>      > has a gma-500 Poulsbo graphics chipset and isn't supported. The 10v
>      > has the well supported gma-950 chipset.
>
>     I guess I did as everything else, excepting the above, works fine.
>
>      >
>      >> My questions are:
>      >>
>      >> 1) Is there a HLC for SOAS?
>      >
>      > Not sure what a HLC is.
>
>     Neither am I. I meant Hardware Compatibility List.
>      >
>      >> 2) Is there a way to set the trackpad sensitivity with SOAS?
>      >
>      > Not sure its possible from sugar but you might be able to run
>      > gnome-mouse-properties from the terminal and set the trackpad stuff
>      > there.
>      >
>      >> 3) Is there a way to trouble shoot the wireless network card issue?
>      >
>      > With regards to the wireless the Broadcom chipset isn't well
>     supported
>      > but you might like to try to install the b43-openfwwf package as
>     its a
>      > firmware that supports some broadcom chips. "yum install -y
>      > b43-openfwwf" I would be very interested to know if/how it works with
>      > that chipset. I've also heard of people buying an intel wifi m-pci
>      > card off ebay and swapping them out..
>      >
>      >> I'm not a total linux noob but I am not a sys admin or a linux
>      >> systems
>      >> developer (I've learnt through struggling through really). I've
>      >> googled for SOAS on the dell mini 10. There are some articles about
>      >> the mini 9 but nothing I have seen is relevant to my issues.
>      >
>      > The mini 9 and the 10v are quite similar hardware wise so there
>     should
>      > be some useful information.
>      >
>      >> If I get it sorted I will certainly write up a blog post about it so
>      >> that the Dell mini 10 can be seen as a viable platform for Sugar. At
>      >> less then 200 quid for a 10 inch netbook it would seem to be a good
>      >> target platform.
>      >
>      > Excellent. It would also be useful if you could register a smolt
>      > profile for it so we can fully document the specs. You can do this by
>      > "yum install -y smolt" and then running the command smoltSendProfile
>      > to register the hardware. If then provides you a public url.
>
>     I will do that.
>
>     Many thanks for your help.
>
>     Russell
>
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      > Peter
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