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

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Mon Aug 31 06:27:08 EDT 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:18, Russell Brown<misterruss at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

Cannot directly answer that question, but these links may help you:

http://www.smolts.org/
http://fedoramobile.org/

AFAIK, anything about Fedora 10 applies to SoaS in this regard.

Regards,

Tomeu

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