On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:44 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > as a radical departure from my normal whinging about stuff that >> > *doesn't* work, i was thrilled to see that broadcom wireless worked >> > right away with no extra help from me. i'm assuming that was >> > *supposed* to happen, yes? so i don't need to go thru the normal >> > downloading of firmware, fwcutting and so on, correct? >> >> "If it works, don't fix it". > > oh, i'm not going to mess with what works. all i'm saying is that > the online sites that explain how to get broadcom wireless going under > f10 and f11, like this: > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmware_installation > > appear to be superfluous, is that correct? > > actually, upon closer inspection, i can see the directory > /lib/firmware/b43, and rpm tells me it's part of the b43-openfwwf > package, so can i assume that's why it just plain works in f12? i > don't recall that package from earlier releases. Its been introduced in the F-12 rawhide time frame but is available in F-11 (and possibly F-10) repos. Peter -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
