From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29386 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Feb 2003 00:46:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1193 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2003 00:46:05 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:35:47 +0100 From: Eric Noack To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030220013547.22350d01.eric.noack@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20030218103415.GA19551@galen.bluecherry.net> References: <20030218103415.GA19551@galen.bluecherry.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Postmortem: Gentoo + wireless X-Archives-Salt: 5e8c4d54-14fc-4cab-9f04-e2c008149b16 X-Archives-Hash: 9e1164c58e599328c123b911c0f64805 Okay, I've attempted to get wireless working on my (Gentoo 1.4) notebook, but was faced with many, many problems. I'll enumerate them: 1. After installing almost all possible driver combinations and following all howtos i could find, i finally found out the Dell has changed the chipset of their true mobile mini-pci cards from a cardbus-bridge+orinocco to a broadcom BCM94301MP minipci card. (about 6:00 hours) 2. After several hours of googling through the web in search for drivers i finally found broadcoms product brief on this chipset There they say "Software Support: Embedded drivers for Linux(R) and VxWorks(R) operating systems" (about 2:00 hours) 3. After months of waiting for informationon on this "embedded driver" to appear anywhere in the net or for a reply mail from broadcom about this stuff, i let purchase an external AP with web-configuration, and placed it on an additional ethernet card of my router-pc, set it open without WEP encryption or restriction, sealed the ethernet-card from the rest of the world via iptables and wrote some shell script daemons and php web frontend scripts, to make people login via browser and then being able to access the net :-) (about 3 months idle waiting and 6 hours configuring) 4. After testing the configuration with my laptop on the routers ethernet card instead of the AP, i have the configuration finnished and am still waiting for drivers for this damn card, or at least chip-specifications to start writing some, or anything. i wrote another email to broadcom for specifications since i didnt get any answer last time. The support people at Dell said something about "there are rumours that someone is writing on a driver and might release it soon" -- but they said this in december 2002 (about 12 hours, still in progress ) 5. Seing this nice thread on the gentoo mailing list and feeling the urge to destroy something, instead then writing this. (10 minutes) Result: Before you have your WLAN configuration under linux actually running assume that you wont get it running EVER - otherwise you might get dissappointed why am i trolling this here anyway, forget it. It has nothing todo with gentoo. Eric -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list