linux newbie - some issues

Larry Grover lgrover at zoominternet.net
Fri Aug 26 02:52:08 UTC 2005


Praveen Kumar wrote:
>>>prob 1: during the installation both the network cards ie ethernet and
>>>wireless were identified correctly and installed but as i see the
>>>system now, the airport card, though displayed in the device mgr
>>>correctly is not listed in the network devices and neither can i use
>>>it in any other way.

> 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g 
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

There's your problem.  You have an airport *exreme* card (broadcom 
chip).  It is not supported under linux.

There is an effort to reverse engineer drivers for this chip, so there 
may be support in the future:

http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net./

Regards,
Larry




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