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qodsec
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I have my internet working via mol on my powerbook but has anyone tried http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ ?? It looks like they have a Broadcom driver!  |
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sktrdie
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Yea, I just saw that site too.
what's the deal?
All I read on top it says: An attempt to write....
this is just a project to create something off of what JoseJX is building (or someone else), I guess.
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JoseJX
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This is an implementation of the spec that Johannes Berg and I have been working on. It's linked to from the AE on MOL instructions above. However, the implementation is not complete and it's not useful at this point. However they have mananged to transmit some frames, so things are getting closer. Of course, I'll let everyone know once the driver is in a usable state and provide instructions for usage.
Please be patient. :)
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sktrdie
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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yea.. it's awesome JoseJX.
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scoobydu
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| JoseJX wrote: | This is an implementation of the spec that Johannes Berg and I have been working on. It's linked to from the AE on MOL instructions above. However, the implementation is not complete and it's not useful at this point. However they have mananged to transmit some frames, so things are getting closer. Of course, I'll let everyone know once the driver is in a usable state and provide instructions for usage.
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Yes, please let us know 
I have built the source and extracted the firmware from the mac driver, but I'm not sure where to put the firmware files? and the module won't insmod :-/
Need to do a little more playing  to try at least to get the card initialised/seen ...
Keep up the good work!
cheers
scooby
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JoseJX
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The firmware files go in /lib/firmware. This can be changed in hotplug if you want to put them somewhere else.
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giudax18
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i do not set essid and channel.
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giudax mnt # iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11a/b/ Mode:Managed Channel:6 Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Encryption key:off
giudax mnt # iwconfig eth1 essid "ciccione"
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
giudax mnt # iwconfig eth1 channel 11
giudax mnt # iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11a/b/ Mode:Managed Channel:6 Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Encryption key:off
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JoseJX
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As I said above, the implementation is *NOT* complete. Unless you want to write some code for the project, there's no reason to test things yet.
When it's in a usable state I'll write a HOWTO. Please try to be patient until then. :)
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| JoseJX wrote: | | The firmware files go in /lib/firmware. This can be changed in hotplug if you want to put them somewhere else. |
Thanks.
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