On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:48 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote:
2009/6/23 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
<wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200906(a)gmail.com>:
>
> "Christopher A. Williams" <chriswfedora(a)cawllc.com> writes:
>> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote:
>>>
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>>>
>>> This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you
>>> try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> This worked like a champ. On both machines.
>
> I wonder, would this shell script to wget the binaries and then
> b43-fwcutter them be the sort of thing that rpmfusion could package up?
>
> Having everybody navigate to a web page, figure out which of several
> code snippets they need and and cut and paste them into a shell window,
> sounds like the sort of thing that give linux its "user unfriendly"
> label.
Havn't seen this on Fedora packages, but on Debian non-free there's a
packaged named flashplugin-nonfree, which has a script named
/usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree that downloads the flashplugin
from the adobe site and installs it.
Same thing could be done for b43 firmware.
You could add a wissh to rpmfusion.
Are we sure they would take this on? They are already carrying the
Broadcom "official" drivers as the kmod-wl package set.
If they did, they would have to make the two mutually exclusive and
explain the difference between them because kmod-wl blacklists the other
F11 B43 drivers.
Still well worth asking the question though...
Cheers,
Chris
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