hello all and roni in particular. roni, if you remember we tried hard to get the vifi working on my compaq laptop at your house. today after I updated ubuntu feisty I find it perfectly working out of the box! now my only question is that if I happen to format the laptop any time, wil just the updates help me or will I also need to install that broad com driver the way we both did? I want to know from any one who has tried broadcom if linux comes with free modules in the latest kernel? what I am really confused is the fact that just an update fixt my vifi problem. so is this a pure linux driver that has done the trick or is it a combination of the firmware and the kernel? can some one answer this? by the way in the updates list I found that the kernel modules were included and this time around the system demanded a reboot after the updates were applied. this implies that it was not a software update but a serious change to the kernel. regards, Krishnakant.
Sometime on Sunday 03 Jun 2007, krishnakant Mane said:
what I am really confused is the fact that just an update fixt my vifi problem. so is this a pure linux driver that has done the trick or is it a combination of the firmware and the kernel?
Do you have the latest linux-restricted-modules-* package installed? If yes, then that explains how your wifi started working.
Anurag
On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 21:59 +0530, krishnakant Mane wrote:
it a combination of the firmware and the kernel? can some one answer this? by the way in the updates list I found that the kernel modules were included and this time around the system demanded a reboot after the updates were applied. this implies that it was not a software update but a serious change to the kernel.
Most likely the latest version of Ubuntu contained the updated driver for your card. Most updates dont require a reboot except ofcourse if the main kernel is updated. Not even addition of kernel modules need a reboot.
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Most likely the latest version of Ubuntu contained the updated driver for your card. Most updates dont require a reboot except ofcourse if the main kernel is updated. Not even addition of kernel modules need a reboot.
Vivek had problems with his Broadcom wifi too. He could update his system too and try his luck.
I do have the linux kernel's restricted drivers in my update list. so that probably did the trik. now what I wonder is that just in case I format my disk, do I need to install the fw cutter or will these updates do the work for me provided I keep them on a cd which contains the /var/cache/apt/archive directory or apt on cd package? regards, Krishnakant.
krishnakant Mane wrote:
I do have the linux kernel's restricted drivers in my update list. so that probably did the trik. now what I wonder is that just in case I format my disk, do I need to install the fw cutter or will these updates do the work for me provided I keep them on a cd which contains the /var/cache/apt/archive directory or apt on cd package?
I recollected, fwcutter is to convert M$ drivers into fw files. So you may not need it.
krishnakant Mane wrote:
I do have the linux kernel's restricted drivers in my update list. so that probably did the trik.
Krish, have a look at this link.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty
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