F8, b43 and radio button for BCM4318

[Thomas Canniot]

Le Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:48:29 -0500,
"John W. Linville" <linville at redhat.com> a écrit :

> 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?
> 
> 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...)
> 
> John

Actually, on my HP NX6125, the mute light is not lighted on as well
when the sound is muted.
Maybe all this buttons are linked.

Thomas
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