Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 241956
Broadcom 1390 WLAN using fwcutter not working in Fedora7
Last modified: 2008-06-16 21:20:21 EDT
Description of problem: Broadcom 1390 WLAN Mini-pci card (rev1) does not work in Fedora7 using Bcm43xx-fwcutter. Fresh install of Fedora7, installed fw-cutter packages and installed firmware that I used in FC6 installation (which worked). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. Install fwcutter and firmware-no broadcom card recognition Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fwcutter and firmware -no broadcom card recognition 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Ok the problem seems to be fixed. Re-cut the firmware V 4.x and all is working now. BUT it appears as though this patch: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-February/003798.html has failed yet again to make it upstream in recent kernels. This patch allows broadcom 1390 devices to work at much better speeds. For reference you can look at this bug: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213556
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