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Whiite Xwhiite Bliight Linux wifi Broadcom BCM43xx ppc drivers

Posted by croalx 
Whiite Xwhiite Bliight Linux wifi Broadcom BCM43xx ppc drivers
April 14, 2009 11:13PM
hi folks some info about the wii linux distros missing wifi support
checking around this are the data get around
nintendos built-in wifi is handled by the same driver of the mac airport powerpc based wifi
1) theres around a gentoo driver of the broadcom 43xx ppc version
2) from the ubuntu forum
[help.ubuntu.com]

Using Broadcom Wireless in Ubuntu Feisty 7.04
As of kernel 2.6.17, there is native support for some Broadcom chipsets. You have to use the fw-cutter tool to suck out the firmware code from a windows driver. The fw-cutter, or firmware cutter, or firmware extractor, does this.

This driver was included into the Linux kernel since kernel version 2.6.17-rc2.

There are two ways to use the Broadcom chipset with Linux:

Using ndiswrapper. This was the only way of getting support for these devices before Linux kernel 2.6.17-rc2.
This will not work on PowerPC.
the right one

Using the native drivers in the kernel. This still requires extracting the firmware (the software that runs on the card itself) from one of a number of places using a tool called fwcutter. If you have bcm43xx hardware that is recognizable to the new kernel and you boot your PC with the Feisty installation CD, you will see error messages about the missing bcm43xx firmware, that show up on the console after the first boot splash screen but before X is started (or with the dmesg command). Following these instructions will fix this problem and you will have a working wireless card.

this is a link for the driver bcm43xx tar not checked
[www.alessandroronchi.net]
hope that someone gets this
bye
Re: Whiite Xwhiite Bliight Linux wifi Broadcom BCM43xx ppc drivers
April 16, 2009 01:10AM
Thanks but no thanks. They already know how it works. And it does not work like that. Long story short: two processors.
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