Breezy + Broadcom != wifi

[Carl Karsten]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 03:21:45PM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am going out on a limb here  not sure what should/shouldn't work.
>>
>>I have a working Toshiba Satalight Pro 4600 and a HP ze4400 that won't 
>>boot.  I pulled the wifi card from the HP and put it in the Toshiba and 
>>installed Breezy.
>>
>>lspci shows:
>>
>>0000:02:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g 
>>Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>>
>>0000:02:0c.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02)
>>
>>But neither the installer nor the running OS seems to recognize there is a 
>>wifi card present.
>>
>>Should it?
>>
>>Is this worth filing a bug report over, or is the "won't boot" part kinda 
>>kill it?
> 
> 
> There is presently no Linux driver available for this device, due to the
> manufacturer's unwillingness to cooperate with the open source community by
> releasing the necessary specifications.
> 
> Some users have had success using ndiswrapper with some Broadcom devices.
> 

Does that mean it can't be supported in Breezy main?   If not, I won't bother 
documenting what it takes to get it to work.

Carl K