#835 closed defect (wontfix)
Soas-20090503 with helper cd, no wireless on Macbook
Reported by: | daveb | Owned by: | sdz |
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Priority: | Unspecified by Maintainer | Milestone: | Unspecified |
Component: | Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) | Version: | 0.84.x |
Severity: | Unspecified | Keywords: | |
Cc: | bernie | Distribution/OS: | Unspecified |
Bug Status: | Unconfirmed |
Description
Wireless does not work with soas-20090503 with helper CD.
Change History (11)
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by daveb
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by daveb
Still doesn't work on 20090524. This is important for some users, is there a way to support these common wireless chipsets?
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by daveb
Also, for completeness, this is the same result with F11 Preview LiveCD. I don't know if there are rpmfusion drivers for this chipset, I'll check it out.
comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by daveb
Looks like broadcom is supported in rpmfusion non-free which is redistributable but not modifiable.
comment:5 Changed 14 years ago by daveb
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/development/i386/os/repoview/broadcom-wl.html
Sorry, I forgot the URL.
comment:6 Changed 14 years ago by bernie
The bcm43xx chipset is supported by the Linux kernel shipped with Fedora, but the firmware is not redistributable, therefore it is not included in the distribution.
To install it, do the following (untested):
sudo -i # or su - yum install b43-fwcutter wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
The procedure is explained in full detail here:
comment:7 Changed 14 years ago by bernie
- Cc bernie added
comment:8 Changed 14 years ago by tomeu
- Component changed from sugar to SoaS
- Owner changed from tomeu to sdz
comment:9 Changed 13 years ago by RafaelOrtiz
anyone has a mac to test this out ? (and fix it hopefully;))
comment:10 Changed 13 years ago by daveb
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
You can use the broadcom driver in RPMfusion which is free. This depends greatly on exactly which model of the Broadcom chipset you have, dependent on the Macbook model.
The package is called broadcom-wl in RPMfusion non-free. It is free to redistribute but not to modify.
Since it is SoaS policy to only include Fedora packages I am resolving this. You can get the driver if you want using the fwcutter or the RPMfusion STA driver.
comment:11 Changed 13 years ago by sascha_silbe
- Distribution/OS changed from SoaS to Unspecified
Bulk change distribution=SoaS -> component=SoaS
It's the classic broadcom chipset unfortunately
It seems to say it is using some kernel module but iwconfig says no wireless extensions.
Here is lspci output
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)