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

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2550 --- Comment #12 from NVieville <nicolas.vieville(a)univ-valenciennes.fr&gt; 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_... 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 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.