On Friday 16 November 2007 10:48:29 am John W. Linville wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:56:46PM -0500, eah wrote: > > I have the BCM4318 wlan0. b43 driver picks it up after following > > instructions using broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2. It does not active the > > card's radio (my little blue light stays dark to say it like an end user) > > . dmesg reports "ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready" > > To answer your later question, this is the right firmware. I am > presuming that you extracted the firmware already. > > > What do I need to do to get that working? > > > > This is the farthest I've ever gotten using the stock driver, so kudos to > > all involved in that. > > Are these your only indications? Did you actually try to activate > the card using NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant, or iwconfig? > I tried iwconfig and could only get essid set. nick would not set neither would wlan0 find an access point. > Regarding the "little blue light", did you try pushing the RF kill > button? Sometimes they are a software-controlled toggle rather than > an actual physical switch. (Note: don't bother with this without > trying NetworkManger, et al. first...) I tried pushing the button because I know it sometimes needs to trigger an event, but no joy. > > John > -- > John W. Linville > linville@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
