Re: broadcom wireless under F7 -- the recipe(?)

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On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote:

> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
> > so far, so good?  i just want to verify that that's the right
> > firmware file before going any further.  i'm paranoid that way.
> > :-)
>
> I'm sorry I don't have that device, I don't know.  But it is the
> case that "firmware" is a bit of a misnomer for the wireless devices
> I have met, in fact this file is getting loaded into SRAM on the
> device, not flash or anything.  So any problems caused by the wrong
> firmware should not live through a powerdown of the device.

agreed.

> WEP is completely unsafe though, aircrack and related tools can
> crack it with relative ease.  Unless you live in the wilderness WPA
> is a necessity (and I use ssh tunnels for everything, including all
> web traffic proxied through one, inside that in addition).

i agree.  but, for the moment, i'm actually going to try to get
wireless working with no encryption whatsoever, just to make sure that
*that's* not the problem.  just trying to minimize the number of
potential issues.

rday
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