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

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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>  and, moving on, here's what appears to be the final(?) steps in the
> recipe (from
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156282):
> 
> 
> # bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware ~fedora/wl_apsta.o
> # echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
> # modprobe -r bcm43xx
> # modprobe -r ieee80211softmac
> # modprobe -r ieee80211_crypt
> # modprobe -r ieee80211
> # modprobe -r bcm43xx_mac80211
> # modprobe bcm43xx_mac80211
> 
> "Then I plugged along and enabled NetworkManager and
> NetworkManagerDispatcher"
> 
>   does all of that sound sane?  if so, i'll give it a shot.

Since both the old ieee80211 stack driver and the new mac80211-based one
both want to own the same device ID at the moment, your workaround
sounds very needed.

I was never able to get Network Manager to work with my WPA network past
scanning for APs, maybe it can work okay with no encryption though.

-Andy

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