Dapper, Kernel 2.6.17 & the Broadcom wireless card

[Johan Brannlund]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:12:26 -0400, John Dillworth wrote:

> I've been trying to get my Linksys wpc54g wireless card working with Dapper
> without much success.  I read today that the new Kernel, 2.6.17 has support
> for the Broadcom chipset contained in the Linksys card.  Will dapper be
> updated to the 2.6.17 kernel?  If so, when would that probably be?  

That patch is already in the Dapper 2.6.15 kernel. However, Ubuntu is not
allowed to distribute the firmware so you have to install that yourself.
For a howto, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1071920 .

- Johan