Re: one more time -- broadcom wireless on f7

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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Martin Marques wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > in other words, "if that doesn't work, try ...".    exactly the kind
> > of advice i was hoping to avoid.
> >
> > seriously, if you have the same setup i have, and you have a reliable
> > way to get wireless to work on f7/f8t1, by all means, drop me a note
> > offline and let me know what magic you used.  but, please, no notes
> > along the lines of "well, you might want to try *this* ..."  i've
> > "tried" a number of alleged solution -- now i'm ready for one that
> > simply works.  why is that such an unreasonable request?
>
> Try exactly what is said in:
>
> http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3014.html
>
> except that you should try with the bcm43xx-80211 driver.

  no offense, martin, but this is precisely what drives me a little
bit nuts about all the advice i've been getting.

  first, that very web page starts off by saying "Install
bcm4300-fwcutter" and, as the command, states:

  yum install bcm43xx-fwcutter

not a fatal typo, but why the mismatch in package names?  sloppy.

  second, step 5 claims that

  "You can either reboot or run the command below

      modprobe bcm43xx

i can guarantee that those two operations are *not* equivalent since
rebooting will *not* cause the bcm43xx module to be loaded (i tested
that this morning).  in short, that step is flat out wrong.

  and, finally, what is the "bcm43xx-80211" driver to which you refer
to above?  do you actually mean the correctly named
"bcm43xx_mac80211" driver?

  you can see what i'm talking about now -- lots of advice that
contains typoes or that cannot possibly be correct.  i appreciate the
obvious good intentions, but please stop giving me advice that you are
simply pulling out of thin air.  it's not helping.

rday

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