[Nottingham] Wireless connection at University of Nottingham

[Cat Clarkson]

Out of curiosity, and vaguely on topic, is there any way to make UoN WiFi
work with smartphones?  I think there must be some issue with proxy stuff
that I don't understand.

HTC Hero running 2.1 [rooted if that helps]

Cheers
Cat

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Mat Booth <mbooth at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On 1 February 2011 10:51, Aritra Dalal <aritra.dalal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey there,
> >
> >
> > I run Ubuntu x64 10.10 on a BCM4312 b/g card.
> >
>
> Ugh, unfortunately it's probably more to do with that Broadcom adaptor
> rather than Ubuntu itself.
>
> Sadly Broadcom adaptors are really quite flakey because you have to
> use the proprietary driver, which may or may not require a non-zero
> amount of imaginative hackery to get working. This page might help
> you: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx
>
> However, Broadcom recently released a whole chunk of code so the
> situation is likely to improve in the future but that code is still in
> the staging tree and has not yet been merged in the mainline upstream
> kernel. I don't know if Ubuntu have back-ported it to any of their
> released kernels.
>
> Regards,
> Mat
>
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