[Bug 2550] Review request: wl-bcm43142-kmod - X86_64 Kernel module for Broadcom wireless devices BCM43142

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https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2550

--- Comment #12 from NVieville <nicolas.vieville at univ-valenciennes.fr> 2013-03-10 19:20:41 CET ---
Hi Nicolas,

As I already said it (initial message and comment #2), sorry for that, I don't
own myself such a device, so I'm unable to provide you any results of your
asked test with Windows driver.

But according to the chart in
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices the 14e4:4365
device (aka bcm43142, aka Dell 1704, aka bcm4365) is not supported by the b43
or b43legacy drivers.

In addition, after a few hours surfing and "googling" about Linux and bcm43142
wireless device led me to the tip that suggest installing/extracting the
corresponding Ubuntu package, see for example:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=282334
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=282334

That's why I thought it was worth proposing a package of this driver "made for
Fedora".

Maybe I was wrong when I thought this package should be needed by Fedora users,
but for the moment, I didn't found any "howto" or "tutorial" showing how to
proceed successfully with b43-fwcutter and this bcm43142. 

It would be very useful if one of the readers of this thread, owning this
device, should confirm your suggestion about the b43-fwcutter. 
To try to help in this way, I found 2 links where one can download the drivers
for this device and for Windows (for Lenovo and Dell laptop):

http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/h0wg01ww.exe
http://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER01132685M/1/Network_Driver_154HC_WN_WLAN_6.30.59.7_A02.EXE

Be careful, the second one is more than 400 MiB. I can't give any tip on how to
use them (probably extracting them is needed but file-roller doesn't show
anything useful).

In order to get more users reading this thread having the opportunity to test
the different suggestions, maybe should I post on the forums sited above the
address of this one, to draw their attention to this discussion?

I hope we find a solution that will give users the best and smoother Fedora
experience.

Comments, suggestions or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Cordially,


-- 
NVieville

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