A while ago, I delighted you all with my struggles to get the bcm43xx driver working... Yesterday I kind of came close.. again.

After finally finding out why I couldn't find the option in the kernel config, I found out that I didn't have CONFIGIEEE80211SOFTMAC enabled, and when I did, success: CONFIG_BCM43XX was available. After compiling this kernel, making sure ndiswrapper didn't load on startup, I restarted. However, with the new drivers (that seemed to load and find my card fine) I couldn't get myself an IP address- great.

Somehow, I found out that my 2.6.17 patched to 2.6.18-rc1 kernel did work though. However, I had a different problem with that kernel- it wasn't really telling the system about its version and upon trying to use module-assistant it came up with errors saying it couldn't find the kernel sources.

So now I've finally downgraded back to 2.6.17 where my kernel headers can be found, but I'm back to using ndiswrapper, and I don't care anymore!