On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Will Woods wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:40 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > the scenario: a gateway MX8711 laptop, fresh install of F8T1, and > > whose /var/log/dmesg reads: > > > > ... > > bcm43xx-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found > > ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1 > > bcm43xx-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2, Revision 8 > > bcm43xx-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2 > > bcm43xx-phy0 debug: Radio turned off > > ... > > > > so, to make a long question short, does anyone have a recipe for > > getting wireless up and running on this system? the first time i ran > > system-config-network and tried to add a wireless interface, i was > > presented with a choice of "Other Wireless Card" and that's it. > > Don't bother with system-config-network. > > bcm43xx cards need firmware (that Broadcom won't let us package and > redistribute, grr) to operate. Have you gotten the firmware > installed? > > If not - install the bcm43xx-fwcutter and read the README therein > for a long list of places to get firmware. You'll need 4.x firmware > for that driver/card, probably. don't worry -- this has been hashed out thoroughly on the fedora list, and i now have a relatively accurate wiki entry explaining the process: http://www.linux-games.ca/wiki/index.php/Rday%27s_installing_Broadcom_4318_wifi rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
