On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > there is little value in listing the 6 variations i've tried, > > just so someone can say, "here, here's a 7th possibility, maybe > > *that'll* work." > > Isn't that exactly what you have to do in a case like this? > By the time you get to variation 12, it will probably work. actually, i stripped the recipe down to its bare essentials and, amazingly enough, i am now on the net. the sordid details are, of course, documented here: http://www.linux-games.ca/wiki/index.php/Rday%27s_installing_Broadcom_4318_wifi in short, i ignored all of the documentation regarding NetworkManager and modprobe.conf and blacklisting and all the rest, and just used iwconfig, ifconfig and dhclient to finally get connected. sometimes, the simple ways are the best. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
