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

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com> wrote:
> 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.

The support is still somewhat minimal. According to the site it
supports the following variants - 4306, 4311(rev1), 4318 and 4320 and
doesn't support encryption. I have no idea what the models numbers
refer to in relation to the manufacturers names as I don't have access
to the HW to cross reference. Although if people do have Broadcom
wireless modules and can provide me the details I'll quite happily
maintain a list broadcom model, manufacturer model and the working
state.

You can find more details about the support here
http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/

Peter