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

[bof]

Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> 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
>   

Thank you. I'll try the AppleAirPort driver;  you can send both the 
32-bit and 64-bit versions if you have them.

BOF