On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:22:52 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Dino Sangoi wrote: > > > 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. > > sure, my pleasure, but one caveat -- that page will soon be moving to > be under my new (and under construction) web page for my company: > > http://crashcourse.ca > > where there's a link called "Goodies" at the top that will take > readers to a wiki where i'm going to be collecting little tutorials > that i write just like that. in short, the more reliable way to find > little HOWTOs that i write from now on will definitely be thru the > crashcourse site, so you should bookmark that URL instead. Ok, I will bookmark the crashcourse link then... Thanks! > > > 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 > ^ (that should be a "_", right? :-) Believe it or not, it should work both ways! the module-init-tools for kernel 2.6.x ignores the difference between '_' and '-'... a bit strange, but very handy, because '-' is easier to type than '_', and you are not forced to remember if the module is called 'bcm43xx_mac80211' or 'bcm43xx-mac80211'. [SNIP] > > > > Talking about NetworkManager: after the device has the correct > > firmware, a simple 'service NetworkManager start' should be enough. > > wouldn't you need to also start NetworkManagerDispatcher as well? (i > admit that i don't really know how those two services work, but if i > can hook all this configuration into the GUI, i'd be happy.) Well, networkmanager is black magic also for me, I can only say that starting only NetworkManager works for me... but maybe I was always missing something. I find NetworkManager very useful when I need to switch between wired and wireless connections, because it does everything automatically, and when I need to connect to WPA-protected wireless networks. For stable, seldom changing connections I still prefer system-config-network... maybe because I'm a old-school linux user... Dino
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