Robert P. J. Day <rpjday <at> mindspring.com> writes: > > 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 Nice! I will bookmark this link, so I enlight other poor bcm43xx owners. Just a few comments: To configure the device using system-config-network, after you have the firmware, add something like this to /etc/modprobe.conf ---- cut here alias wlan0 bcm43xx-mac80211 ---- cut here well, starting from kernel 2.6.23-0.105.rc3.fc8, the driver got renamed to b43,so the line becomes: ---- cut here alias wlan0 b43 ---- cut here then run system-config-network, add a new wireless device, and you should be able to choose the 'b43 (wlan0)' as hardware device. Ideally system-config-network should find the device even without firmware (and without touching modprobe.conf!), and tell you something like "I'm very sorry, but sadly I can't configure your device because <put the hardware manufacturer here> doesn't allow us to distribute the firmware needed. This is weird, because you can find the firmware in every driver for other operating systems, and the only effect is pushing Linux users to a friender hardware. Anyway, you can obtain the firmware files following the instructions found here: <link to documentation>, copy it to /lib/firmware. and try to configure the device again)". better yet, it should do the work for you, but I'm dreaming... Talking about NetworkManager: after the device has the correct firmware, a simple 'service NetworkManager start' should be enough. Dino. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
