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

[Russell Brown]

On 23 Aug 2009, at 09:49, Peter Robinson wrote:

> 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
Hi,
I still have had no joy getting SOAS to use my dell card. Can anyone  
tell me which mini pci cards I can expect to work with SOAS?

Cheers

Russell