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

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Selon Russell Brown <misterruss at googlemail.com>:

>
> 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.
> >

FYI, the BCM4311 chip is functional (here, on a dell inspiron 1501) with a SOAS
(soas2 dated 30 Aug.). WPA is supported.


Best regards,

Samy