seeking recommendations for a USB 1.1 Network Adapter for a laptop: SOLVED

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

bof schrieb:
> 
> I tried and tried again with the methods listed in the HOWTO but was 
> never able to get anything to work.  I installed fwcutter (with yum, no 
> less!) and when it installed it was apparently version 4. Of the 12 or 
> so driver files I tried of the ones listed in the README file, I could 
> not find one that could be used because the MD5 sums of the driver did 
> not agree with the ones fwcutter was expecting when it extracted the 
> file. The message that I sent to David Woodhouse about this went 
> unanswered, and I finally gave up.
> 
> I was able to get things working with ndiswrapper, although not without 
> some difficulty.  But the built-in NIC is up and working now.

In case you are still interested in trying the Linux Broadcom driver I 
could send you offlist the AppleAirPort2 driver file from my Apple 
ibook. You could run bcm43xx-fwcutter on it to extract the firmware 
files; it works, also in an i386 Fedora installation (I have tried it).
Alternatively, I could send you the resulting .fw files.
Klaus