Hers the steps l took to get the broadcom bcm43xx wireless network card working under Fedora 9 (sulphur) on my HP dv6626us AMD Turion64 based laptop.

1)

[root@localhost ~]# yum install bcm43xx-fwcutter
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package bcm43xx-fwcutter-006-4.fc9.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

2)

Download firmware

wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/source...80.53.0.tar.bz2

3)

[root@localhost steve]# cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0
[root@localhost broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0]# ls
kmod  libbcmcrypto.so  nas  WHERE_FROM  wl

4)

[root@localhost broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0]# cd kmod
[root@localhost kmod]# ls
wl_apsta_mimo.o  wl_apsta.o
[root@localhost kmod]# bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o
*** WARNING ***
This file contains new version4
firmware. v4 firmware is _not_ supported by
the driver in mainline kernels. For v4 firmware
you need latest bcm43xx development version
(wireless-dev kernel tree). If you don't know what
this warning is about, use a 3.xx.xx.xx driver version
instead to extract the firmware.

filename   :  wl_apsta.o
version    :  4.80.53.0
MD5        :  9207bc565c2fc9fa1591f6c7911d3fc0
microcodes :  4 5 11 13
pcms       :  4 5

microcode  :  4
revision   :  0x015f
patchlevel :  0x007e
date       :  2006-07-29
time       :  05:54:02

microcode  :  5
revision   :  0x015f
patchlevel :  0x007e
date       :  2006-07-29
time       :  05:54:02

microcode  :  11
revision   :  0x015f
patchlevel :  0x007e
date       :  2006-07-29
time       :  05:54:02

microcode  :  13
revision   :  0x015f
patchlevel :  0x007e
date       :  2006-07-29
time       :  05:54:02

extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode11.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode13.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval03.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval04.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval07.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval08.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval09.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval20.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval21.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval22.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval23.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval24.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval25.fw ...
[root@localhost kmod]#

Now , reboot your laptop

Biggest winners - GeoEye (5.95%), Deere (4.91%), Stewart Information Services (4.47%)

Biggest losers - Broadcom (-10.92%), SiRF (-7.96%), Google (-4.69%)

News

Broadcom (-10.92%) - Downgraded by Oppenheimer.

Garmin (-2.88%) - Purchases Portuguese distributor.  Introduces nuMaps Guarantee program for nuvi and zumo receivers.  New nuvi 2x5 series receivers to have handsfree calling and lifetime traffic data capability.  nuvi 7x5 series has Lane Assist and lifetime traffic.\

GeoEye (5.95%) - GeoEye-1 scheduled to launch September 4.  Subject to delisting from NASDAQ.

Google (-4.69%) - Google to be the sole mapping site to use imagery from GeoEye-1.  Imagery from Google Earth used to do research about cows.

Microsoft (-1.16%) - u-Blox 5 to be used in a USB GPS receiver bundled with MapPoint.  Imagery from UltraCam, used on Virtual Earth, will be for sale for offline usage.

SiRF (-7.96%) - Judge recommends banning the importation of some SiRF products due to the recent Broadcom patent decision.  SiRF appealing findings.

TimeWarner (3.02%) - MapQuest site updates.

In the short-term, there doesn't appear to be any upside from this deal, as it should be dilutive by around 3 cents in Q4/08, and things with the ATI DTV business don't change overnight. Sales cycles are determined at least a year in advance, and with increasing integration of components and TVs expected to "do more", more traction for Broadcom's DTV business as a result of this transaction may be more like 18 months off.

However, the long-term prospects for this move come at a perfect time for Broadcom, especially as Sony and Samsung look to integrate more functionality into their TVs. Already, Sony is pushing the Bravia link device which adds Internet connectivity to their televisions, and Samsung has announced that it is partnering with Yahoo to deliver Internet content directly to TVs. In other words, television makers are starting to push the envelope into content, delivering more on-demand content in addition to live broadcasted content (through initiatives like Tru2way from the cable industry). To me, this sounds like the consumer OEM makers are trying to replicate what the set top box makers (Thomson, Pace Micro, Motorola, Scientific Atlanta) and the gaming console makers (Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PS3) are trying to do. Broadcom's ability to do video decoding, image scaling, and image quality improvements should be boosted by the addition of more than 500 ex-ATI engineers as well as their DTV patents.

We very well could see a lot of replication or overlap between what these boxes are trying to accomplish, which could be a goldmine for a chip maker like Broadcom. Why? The issue is that consumers will want this functionality essentially "for free", meaning that this will put pressure on the component makers to deliver "good enough" performance at the best cost. For Broadcom, supporting DTV makers is a full-time effort, and getting hundreds of experienced engineers from AMD/ATI at a firesale is a necessary move on their part.

On the whole, Broadcom has historically shown that one of its strengths is in integrating functionality from its multiple acquisitions to provide a very cost-competitive part as an industry moves to high-volume consumption. The rapid adoption of BlueTooth on mobile phones is a perfect example of this and helped drive Broadcom's quarterely revenue run rate above $1B. The next market inflection point could be in developing truly networked televisions that provide access to on-demand and broadcasted content, while allowing content owners to control how that content gets shuttled around the home and even between homes. With Broadcom having solid market share and capabilities within the mobile phone world, high speed networking (GigE interfaces and Wi-Fi), personal networking (BlueTooth), front end DTV demodulators (from ATI's DTV), integrated single chip DTV components (65nm SoC parts), and storage interfaces, Broadcom has all of the pieces of the puzzle that it can mix-and-match for demanding DTV clients... like Sony and Samsung.

The bottom line is that Broadcom gave up very little in order to gain a more significant piece of the STB and DTV markets, more human resources, and a better intellectual property base. From a strategic perspective, this is a logical move for the Irvine California giant, and does set up the company to be a leading player as DTV makers look to play a bigger role in the digital living room of the future. While the "smart TV" has been long on promise but has seen little interest from consumers, this time should be different as Sony and Samsung will at least be putting these some of these new capabilities into their televisions starting in 2009 and 2010.

AMD Sells Off Digital TV Chip Division; Broadcom buys it for $192.8 million in cash. (GigaOM)

Vudu Hires New CFO; former eBay finance exec Chris Watts joins the company amidst recent layoffs. (release)

Classics Still Can't Be Found Online; digital downloads favor newly released titles; films like The Godfather and Jaws can't be found legally online as rights are cleared and there's more money to be made from DVD sales. (Variety)

Brian Conley Released from Chinese Detention; citizen journalist and seven other Americans freed six days early and deported back to the U.S. (Next New Networks)

ABC News' Web Newscast Not Going Away; network will keep producing the the 15-minute news program with Charlie Gibson. (The Hollywood Reporter)

From Reuters:

AMD shares rose 4.5 percent after the news but Broadcom shares fell 3.5 percent after it said the deal would hurt earnings in the first year.

However, Stifel Nicolaus analyst Cody Acree applauded the agreement, saying it opens high-volume, high-growth consumer markets for Broadcom's TV chip unit.

"If Broadcom gets into a lower end DTV box, it allows them to target markets like China, India and Brazil," said Acree, adding that sales of cheaper televisions could be lifted by economic uncertainty among consumers.

After the deal, Broadcom would be selling chips for television sets with screens of up to 20 inches priced around $200 to $300. Broadcom, which makes chips for a range of consumer electronics including cell phones and set-top boxes, had previously focused on chips for more expensive TVs.

The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter and is forecast to cut Broadcom's full year 2009 net earnings per share by a range of 4 cents to 5 cents, including 2 cents of stock-based compensation, the company said. It expects the impact on earnings to lessen and "approach neutrality" by the fourth quarter of 2009.

Meanwhile, just a few miles up the road from AMD's Austin campus, Freescale may be entertaining buyers as well. An article in the Austin American Statesman gives substance to some rumors I'd heard about the wireless chip division being for sale and my general theory that Freescale needs to slim down. We knew the wireless division was in trouble, especially as Motorola, its largest customer (and former parent company) began buying its chips from Qualcomm and TI. Unfortunately for Freescale, most of its wireless technology wouldn't be that interesting to a big wireless chip firm because it would already have much of Freescale's know how. That makes a foreign buyer seeking bargain basement prices much more likely.

Here in Austin the news of cheap chip units for sale might be disappointing, but there's still plenty to cheer about. The city may have lost most of the fabrication plants that gave it the Silicon Hills nickname, (and may lose more depending on AMD's asset-light strategy), but it still is home to several important design efforts. IBM's cell processor was designed in Austin, as were aspects of Intel's Atom chip. ARM Holdings, Via Technologies and AMD all have design engineers here working on big projects.

Perhaps most enticingly, there are some interesting startups. Luxtera, a CMOS-based optical chip maker has the potential to achieve optical speeds between chips and on individual chips cheaper than current generation technology, and Black Sand Technology, which is designing a silicon-based power amplifier, are both in Austin. If its chips work, Black Sands could benefit greatly from California's recent ruling that gallium arsenide, a popular semiconductor compound used in most power amplifiers is a carcinogen.

Austin's Silicon Hills may be eroding, but for high-end jobs, the hills are still alive.

image of AMD's new Austin HQ under construction in Aug. 2007 from AMD

Biggest winners - Cobra (12.11%), Stewart Information Services (10.17%), Autodesk (8.82%)

Biggest losers - SiRF (-29.60%), Nokia (-5.91%), Oce (-5.78%)

News

Autodesk (8.82%) - Upgraded by Needham.

Boeing (-5.03%) - Awarded a Navy contract to develop High Integrity GPS concepts.

Broadcom (5.57%), SiRF (-29.60%) - Patent ruling against SiRF will not be reviewed.

Garmin (0.32%) - Supplying Garmin Mobile XT for Seamless Internet device.

General Dynamics (0.65%) - Downgraded by JP Morgan.

GeoEye (3.53%) - GeoEye-1 satellite to be launched September 4.  Coverage initiated by Collins Stewart.

Intermap (7.93%) - Second quarter earnings reported.

ITT (-1.44%) - Downgraded by JP Morgan.

Lockheed Martin (4.11%) - Awarded a $32M contract from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency for geospatial training.

SiRF (-29.60%) - Review of SiRF's troubles this year.

Yahoo (2.71%) - Flickr using OpenSteetMap data for Beijing to aid geotagging of photos.

The number of Wi-Fi chips sold is expected to top 1 billion this year, up from more than 200 million sold in 2006, according to data from ABI Research. Beyond computers, WiFi-enabled televisions, set-top boxes and cars are entering the market. That's good news for those backing the standard, but it could pose a problem for the multiple startups betting on different wireless standards for connecting computers to peripherals, transmitting wireless video and managing home-automation networks.

Carl Showalter, founding general partner with Opus Capital, says the current and next-generation versions of Wi-Fi have the bandwidth to offer video and can do a variety of things at lower power; energy use and wireless bandwidth have been the most common stumbling blocks to using the technology in more applications. For Opus, Wi-Fi's primacy in the market has translated into investments in Eye-Fi, which announced an $11 million Series B round this month for a card that WiFi-enables a digital camera, and in GainSpan, which raised $20 million at the end of 2007 for its ultra-low-powered Wi-Fi chipset, which could be used in sensor networks and home automation.

So where in the home might Wi-Fi work? First, it's good to recall that Wi-Fi currently allows us to transmit a lot of data, really quickly, over distances of about 120 feet. In each generation of the technology standard, the amount of data that can be transmitted has expanded, essentially enabling the networks to carry more information, faster. Some companies are now working on ways to use the proposed 802.11n next-generation Wi-Fi standard, set by the IEEE, to transfer high-definition video to televisions.

Wi-Fi started out in the home office, linking computers to broadband connections, then to each other without cables. It could soon replace technologies such as Bluetooth or proprietary lasers in wireless keyboards and mice, thanks to a new project at Intel called Cliffside. Researchers on the project are developing technology to add short-range transmission to Wi-Fi's capabilities. In June, Ozmo Devices came out of stealth mode with $12.5 million in funding from Intel Capital, Tallwood Venture Capital and Granite Ventures with plans to use Cliffside technology in developing a line of WiFi-enabled keyboards and mice. Products should be available later this year.

The office conquered, Wi-Fi is now making a beeline for the living room with attempts to deliver high-definition video to the television from set-top boxes, PCs or DVD players. Samsung and Philips already offer Wi-Fi chips in televisions for standard-definition content. In late July, Cisco (which has a pretty hefty stake in Wi-Fi with its Linksys-brand routers) led a $16 million round for Celeno Communications, a startup trying to make WiFi-based home entertainment networks a reality. It's worth noting that several other technical standards are trying to win out when it comes to replacing the wires associated with televisions and their accoutrements. Those include Ultra-wideband, Wireless HD and the newly formed WHDI Special Interest Group.

Eric Zimits, a managing director with Granite Ventures, says the market for cable replacement between the TV and DVD player might end up using a specialized standard developed by the consumer electronics device makers, but he also says Wi-Fi provides more value by allowing content to move between more devices around the home. Standards such as Ultra-wideband and Wireless HD only travel distances of a few feet, making it impossible to use them to send a movie playing on the DVD player to a TV elsewhere in the home. In contrast, standards such as Wi-Fi or WHDI would make it possible to have just one set-top box that could wirelessly transmit content to all home screens.

The final potential home networking coup for Wi-Fi would be in the home-automation market, where emerging standards such as Zigbee and Z-wave are trying to succeed. As Wi-Fi sheds its power-sucking problems, it could also wirelessly control battery-powered thermostats, surveillance cameras and other sensors. As your home fills up with gadgets running on the Wi-Fi network, venture firms will need to look for startups that can set bandwidth priorities among devices so that your television signal doesn’t break up when your thermostat kicks on.

This was originally published on BusinessWeek.com

Una buena costumbre en equipos de alto rendimiento donde no podamos permitirnos caídas de los servicios (servidores), es configurar varios adaptadores de red, para aprovechar al máximo el ancho de banda y la tolerancia a errores, evitando perdidas de servicio por bloqueo o avería de alguna tarjeta o switch. En equipos con mucho tráfico de datos, por ejemplo servidores de ficheros podemos obtener mayor rendimiento al sumar los anchos de banda de las tarjetas. Dependiendo del fabricante y modelo tendremos distintas opciones.
En este artículo se explican, la instalación en un PC de sobremesa con adaptador Broadcom integrado y una tarjeta PCI Wirelless 3COM y del modelo Intel en un servidor IBM X345.

Instalación con dispositivos Broadcom

En este caso tenemos que descargar e instalar el software para Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet drivers software release - Servers, podemos descargar el ejecutable o una iso para crear un cd.

Un paso previo y necesario es la instalación de .net Framework 2.0 para el correcto funcionamiento.

Según la opción que escojamos tenemos que quemar la imagen (iso) en un CD o extraer los ficheros en una carpeta.

Primero instalaremos el driver actualizado y después las aplicaciones de administración.

Seguimos la desatendida seleccionando la instalación de la interface gráfica para configurar el balance de carga o tolerancia a fallos.

Finalizamos la instalación

Y cerramos el menú principal

Accedemos a la aplicación desde Panel de control a Broadcom Control Suite o desde el acceso directo en la barra de tareas.

Pulsamos en Team Management y dentro de Teams, botón derecho Crear equipo,

Este paso lanza una instalación desatendida que puede ser en modo experto, en este caso seguiremos con la desatendida, pulsando en next.

Damos un nombre al equipo

Y de las opciones que nos permite marcamos, balanceo de carga y tolerancia a fallos

Añadimos al equipo los adaptadores que queremos utilizar

No configuramos StandBy ni LiveLink

Finalizamos la desatendiada, pulsando next.

Y  durante unos minutos la aplicación nos configura las conexiones de red, instalando su propio protocolo para cada adaptador y una nueva conexión de red con la configuración TCP/IP por DHCP.

Realizamos la configuración TCP/IP en el adaptador creado en este caso Teaming y ya tenemos el proceso finalizado.Conexiones de red con Teaming

Si hemos descomprimido el software en el equipo, recordar borrar los ficheros.

Recomendaciones:

1. Esta aplicación funciona correctamente con tarjetas broadcom, puede no funcionar, no permitir todas las opciones o darnos algún mensaje de error si algún adaptador no es compatible.
2. Quitar las configuraciones tpc/ip de los adaptadores antes de configurar teaming y realizar la configurción en consola ya que cabe la posibilidad de bloqueo.
3. El esquema eléctrico y de red debería parecerse al siguiente:

Instalación y configuración teaming con tarjetas Intel Gigaset Dual.

Para servidores IBM con tarjetas Intel Gigaset podemos descargar desde, en este caso el fichero es un exe aki y tambien aki.

Con las tarjetas Intel el proceso es un tanto distinto ya que en vez de instalar un programa, instalamos el controlador que añade opciones a las conexiones de red.

Una vez descargado el controlador e instalado nos encontramos con que en opciones de cualquiera de las conexiones de red tenemos las siguientes pestaña:

Para configurar el Teaming pulsamos en Equipos:

Damos nombre al equipo (nueva adaptador de red que vamos a crear):

Seleccionamos los adaptadores que queremos integrar en el equipo:

Y la opción que queremos utilizar, en este caso distribución de la carga,

Y para finalizar la configuración de red crea una nueva conexión con el equipo, al que tenemos que configurarle las opciones TCP/IP que queremos para nuestro equipo.

aqui va:

Primero Bajense el Dvd De Ubuntu En El Post anterior deje el link para bajarse el ubuntu en dvd.

despues instalan y actualizan el ubuntu con internet de cable.

seguidamente instalan el b43-fwcutter

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

aparecera un anuncio en donde dice si quieres descargar y extraer el firmware, le dicen que si esperan a que baje el firmware, y cuando termine de instalar inmediatamente cierras la terminal y te vas a

Administracion === Controladores de hardware y si no esta activado el driver de la b43 pues activalo y reinicias la maquina, y a continuacion checa si tienes internet inalambrico y listo, instalado

razon del problema: lo que pasa es que en linux hay hardware que no es reconocido porque los fabricantes de software sometidos ante las presiones de microsoft y compañia solo hacen drivers para microsoft y el mismo no acepta que hagan para otros sistemas operativos (ejemplo linux) y no lo detecta, pero con este metodo (solamente probado con la Compaq Presario V3617LA) podras instalar el mentado wireless de la muerte

saludos, y suerte en su instalacion

Biggest winners - Kodak (15.93%), Oce (12.23%), Pitney Bowes (10.94%)

Biggest losers - SiRF (-3.89%), Intermap (-2.50%), John Deere (-1.65%)

News

Broadcom (8.42%), SiRF (-3.89%) - SiRF violated six Broadcom patents.  SiRF seeks reexamination of four Broadcom patents in another dispute.   Broadcom coverage initiated by DA Davidson.

Garmin (6.00%) - Road Tech zumo introduced for Harley-Davidson.

ITT (1.24%) - Announced ENVI 4.5 and integration with ArcGIS.

Microsoft (10.57%) - Info about how an aerial photography company captures imagery for Microsoft.

Wireless chip vendors Broadcom and Infineon also saw their growth increase, while the No. 2 wireless chip maker, Texas Instruments, remained flat (it's still ranked as the third largest vendor, though). Fellow blogger Vijay Nagarajan would likely point out that this is less of a wireless industry problem and probably has to do with TI's non-existent 3G baseband chip catalog (it does do custom chips for 3G). Other than wireless, Nvidia, Samsung, and Panasonic all saw growth rates above 20 percent, indicating the strength of consumer devices.

chart from IC Insights

In order to install ndiswrapper you first need a root terminal, you can get this by opening a terminal and typing in su. You will need an Internet connection for this tutorial so try connecting to your router via an Ethernet cable.

Then to download and install the packages type this in:

zypper in ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-kmp-default

You then need to download the the Windows driver the unzip it (this should take about 3 minutes).

cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE

unzip R151517.EXE

Now move the drivers into a hidden folder in you home directory:

mv DRIVER ~/.drivers
cd ~/drivers

You can now install the drivers with ndiswrapper:

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -ma
ndiswrapper -mi

Now blacklist the broken drivers installed by default:

echo blacklist ssb >> /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
echo blacklist b43 >> /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper

Once you reboot you will be able to connect to your wireless network. If this does not work please comment and I will try to help figure it out.

Biggest winners - Cobra (33.17%), GeoEye (15.88%), Oce (10.88%)

Biggest losers - SiRF (-18.99%), Broadcom (-18.83%), Intermap (-9.59%)

News

Autodesk (-9.03%) - Downgraded by UBS from Neutral to Sell.

Boeing (-6.33%) - Downgraded by Cowen & Co from Outperform to Neutral.

Broadcom (-18.83%) - Second quarter profit quadrupled.  Upgraded by Broadpoint Capital from Neutral to Buy, downgraded by Needham from Strong Buy to Buy.

Cobra (33.17%) - Despite declining sales, reports a profit for second quarter.

Garmin (4.00%) - Introduces waterproof multi-use nuvi 500 series.

Google (2.21%) - Offers walking directions on Google Maps.

ITT (8.00%) - Sales and profit rise in second quarter.

Lockheed Martin (3.59%) - Second quarter profit up.

SiRF (-18.99%) - Second quarter loss reported.

Trimble (2.80%) - Second quarter revenue report.

Who wins and who loses out of this industry shaking deal?

Qualcomm wins, as settling with Nokia was critical for the company to move forward. For companies with significant IP, getting one company to settle implies that that company recognizes that Qualcomm's patents are enforceable. Qualcomm also fills out its patent portfolio, which the company can use to go after other companies with or look to renegotiate existing arrangements. Qualcomm also has the possibility of getting Nokia to buy its chips for 3G products, which are currently primarily supplied by Texas Instruments, though switching out designs would take time and is a longer-term impact. Most importantly, this removes a litigation overhang for Qualcomm (and associated expenses) and the Broadcom litigation is the next big overhang to clear. Does this open the floodgates for the stock run? Maybe, but it's important to remember that the next quarter impact ($0.07-$0.13 benefit) may be more related to the up-front settlement and isn't ongoing, and the ongoing payout will be lower, though the removal of litigation fees is a positive. In other words, there is a risk that maybe Nokia doesn't put all of its eggs in one basket and stay with its current suppliers for chips.

Nokia: The lower royalty fee and clearing up all litigation issues with Qualcomm over all technologies (2G, 3G, CDMA, WiMAX, LTE) was what it was looking for all along. In addition to reducing litigation fees, Nokia should gain about 100-200 bp of operating margin on its cell phone revenues, which on around $86B in revenues, could add $1B in profit. Trading at 11.7x and with 4B shares outstanding, this adds about $2-3 in share value, not factoring in the savings in litigation, but the stock was only up about 3% or $1 yesterday. Looks like there's some value left on the table here.

Broadcom: Broadcom got cut about 10% yesterday., and the biggest fear is that it will disadvantage Broadcom in its Qualcomm litigation, while limiting Broadcom's ability to sell 3G chips to Nokia one day (Broadcom sells Bluetooth chips to Nokia and will be selling EDGE chips to Nokia in '09). Meanwhile, business is booming at Broadcom with the company reporting a 34% YoY growth quarter and expecting $1.25B-$1.3B next quarter, a sign that the company is seeing lots of growth outside of cell phones...

Texas Instruments: The stock was down 4.5% on the news, and this company may have the most to lose, with Nokia representing up to 20% of its sales and TXN supplies all of its 3G baseband chips. I think that Nokia has had a fundamental change from the past, and it now wants to make sure that it diversifies its semi purchases across a lot of suppliers. This drop is Texas is likely warranted, as it introduces one more potential new supplier of chips in a list that includes Broadcom, Infineon, and ST Micro. The previous threats were already built into the stock, so just a slight incremental increase in competitive pressures. Recall that Qualcomm has historically been accused of tying favourable royalty rates with the purchase of their chips, but Nokia would have made sure to get some assurances on rate up front.

In summary, this is indeed a great deal for Qualcomm and Qualcomm investors, as the company does remove a significant overhang to its access to the #1 cell phone company in the world. The one big question mark is how beneficial this will be to Qualomm from a chip perspective and in my view, Nokia will be sure to spread the wealth going forward amongst different chip suppliers, and based on yesterday's stock movements, Broadcom may have been beaten up to an unfair extent.

So this is how you would go on about pairing your S60 phone with Windows XP.

The hardware used is Nokia E61i (S60 3rd), Dikom Bluetooth USB dongle, Easynote R0933 with Windows XP on it.

I will be trying this asap on Ubuntu.

Bluetooth is supported natively on XP , but if you don't have it set up yet, here's the Broadcom installation file.

After that, PythonS60 is to be installed on the phone. Passed though cable, SD card, etc
Here's the Sourceforge page.

Once Bluetooth support is installed ( if you needed to ), open the Bluetooth Configuration from the Control Panel:

During the installation process, the setup will help you to pair the devices. Just make sure they're active.

Now we should create a few COM ports on our BT device, on the Local Services tab , for testing purposes.

This will then reflect itself on the listing:

Open the Windows Hyper Terminal from the Run.. dialog:

Follow the procedure as requested from the dialog. More or less, depending if you already have a Hyperteminal setup or not, the steps for a new connection are as follows.

Choose a name and icon, for this connection.

Choose the COM port that ou want the connection to be placed on. I choose COM7 since it was created for this purpose

On the COM port properties, for my BT device, i found it neccessary to restore defaults and set the Bits per second to 9600

Afterwards all we have to do is wait for an incoming call on this port:

I'm assuming that the Python shell installation file is already on the phone. Installed and working.

We open the shell:

and if all is good it should already start running:

From the Options menu we choose to open the Bluetooth shell:

And choose the same COM port that we choose on the HyperTerminal:

Once this port is choosen, the Python shell from your phone will immediately echo on the Hyperterminal of the computer:

At the very end, without getting too much into it, let's give the product a shot:

Enjoy!

In fact there are too many radios, especially on high-end devices. And it's only going to get worse in coming years as 4G networks using LTE or WiMAX proliferate. Sure WiMAX will begin as a data card inserted into a laptop much like my beloved 3G modem, but in time it will find itself in handheld devices including mobile phones (or so vendors tell me). Meanwhile current 3G and 2G networks will still have to be supported because carriers roll out new networks slowly. Add in radios for other wireless devices, and problems start to emerge.

That's why chip vendors, from established players like Broadcom and NXP to startups like Wavesat and Altair, are hoping to put multiple radios onto one chip. And many of them are turning to software to do it. NXP, for example, has created a software-defined modem that can toggle among LTE, HSPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM networks.

Carsten Schimanke, marketing manager for business line cellular systems with NXP, says that company's decision to build multiple modems onto one chip was an attempt to do three things: to make it easier for carriers to support old and new networks; to make it possible for a phone to operate on multiple networks around the world; and to make it easier for handset makers to use one type of network for certain applications, such as offloading voice onto a 2G network while data goes over a faster 3.5G network.

Outside of the cell phone market, there's an emerging class of Internet-connected devices, such as the Dash Express and the Kindle from Amazon, that also can take advantage of multiple radios on a chip. Raj Singh, CEO and president of Wavesat, a startup company pushing a chip that combines Wi-Fi and WiMAX (and next year will add LTE), points out that these devices need connectivity everywhere in order for them to work. For example in places where a cell network is unavailable but a Wi-Fi network is, such as inside an office building, an Internet-connected device could use that signal.

Obviously the world is moving to ubiquitous broadband with consumer-oriented products, but once the radios are small enough and cheap enough to work anywhere, the different layers of wireless broadband networks could be used in everything -- from getting more real-time traffic information to controlling a city's watering schedule. No single network covers the world, a country or in many cases even a metropolitan area, so multiple radios on one chip might be the future of the chip industry.

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The idea popped in my head a few days ago and i thought it would be quite interesting to see how doable it was.

The hardware used is a Dikom (Broadcom) Usb bluetooth dongle, a Nokia E61i ( Symbian S60 3rd ) and tested on a Dell Inspiron C521 and a PackardBell Easynote R ( both on Hardy Heron 8.04).
It is also assumed that the dongle is connected and the computer can use bluetooth normally.

So looking around for projects that had already done this, i came across three main ones.

Bluepad ( which i successfully installed on both systems, but on the Dell it always failed to find devices to connect and on the Easynote it always failed to connect to the devices found. Troubleshooting the app goes beyond the scope of this material).

Amora (installed correctly on the phone, altogether with the required python shell, and properly compiled on the system but the app on the phone never replied to the BT connections from the server).

Last but not least anyRemote - worked like a charm.
And that's the one i picked.

The applications to install can be downloaded from the Sourceforge page of the project.
There is a .jar and .jad version to be installed on the phone (either sent by BT or cable ).
A server application, of which you can download the source and compile it or the premade deb.
If you need the 64bit version ( like me in both cases ), here's that here's that.

You can get extra add-ons such as a Gnome or KDE front-end and so on.

The Gnome interface ( ganyremote, creative , i know), is quite intuitive once you fire it up.
The source comes with a set of configurations that you can feed to the app.
If you just want to use the binary from command line the syntax is the following:

anyremote -f /path_to_config.cfg

The computer is not waiting for connections to which it will serve an interface based on the config file given to anyremote.

Launch the application on the phone. You can search for new BT devices until you find the computer, connect if/when found.
You can manually insert the required bluetooth address that you want the phone to connect to:

btspp://XXXXXXXXXXXX:19

where the XXXXXXXXXXXX is the Bt address of the dongle, which can be found with

hcitool dev

or

socket://ip_address:port

if your phone supports wifi. I did not test that. Maybe in the next few days.
That's all foks.

INSTALACIÓN DEL DRIVER:

IMPORTANTE: Hay que tener instaladas las cabeceras del nucleo (linux-headers-2.6.25-2-686)

0. En 'Terminal de root':

uname -a

(me fijo en la versión del núcleo que tengo instalada)

apt-get install linux-headers-tuversióndelnucleo

1. Descargo el driver en esta página

2. Lo descomprimo (botón derecho y 'Extraer aquí')

3. Abro un 'Terminal de root' e introduzco secuencialmente los comandos:

make

make install

make load

INSTALACIÓN DEL FIRMWARE:

1. Descargo y construyo el b43-fwcutter (en Terminal de root):

wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-011
make

2. Descargo e instalo el firmware en su lugar adecuado (en Terminal de root):

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
sudo ~/b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta_mimo.o

Y pista

NOTA: este tutorial esta basado en Debian 'Lenny' con nucleo de la serie 2.25 y escritorio GNOME. En otro caso consultar en esta página (en inglés)