On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:49 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> There's a b43 open-source firmware in the default install now, so it
> *should* work. I'm using it right now, and it's good.
>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i ask since i'd like to finally install f12 x86_64 beta on one
> > of my laptops this weekend, but i might have to do it where i
> > won't have access to wired networking, only wireless. so if
> > getting broadcom wireless needs a wired connection to download
> > anything after the install, i'm pretty much screwed.
ok, i'll take a chance this weekend. what i'm really interested in
is ATI radeon support, particularly for my xpress 200m. if anyone can
report on how well that's working for them, i definitely want to know.
you might want to take a copy of the Broadcom firmware with you just in
case - the instructions for extracting it from the Windows driver with
b43-fwcutter are easy to find, and it's just a set of files that go
in /lib/firmware , so you could do the dump (you can do it on any
system) and stick the files on a USB key to take with you just in case
the open firmware doesn't work.
We did have some bad Xpress 200M bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522129
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521512
but I think the worst is fixed now, so X generally works in default
kernel modesetting config. This bug appears to still be present, though:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531383
actually it'd be good if you could confirm/deny whether yours has that
problem.
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