f8t3 live: no networking on presario 700 (Broadcom)

[sean darcy]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 21:45 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 20:17 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
>>>> I have compaq presario 714n notebook, Intel G965 chipset. wireless is 
>>>> Broadcom BCM94311MCG mini-pci, which shows up in lspci.
>>> Broadcom does not make firmware for their wireless cards available in a
>>> freely redistributable form, so Fedora cannot distribute this firmware.
>>> Thus, it cannot work out of the box.  You can generate a firmware file
>>> using the b43-fwcutter utility, but this doesn't help much for the live
>>> environment.  Feel free to request that Broadcom provide freely
>>> redistributable firmware for their wireless products!
>>>
>> Well, would this work:
>>
>> I'm using live to install on a 20gig partition that already has windows 
>> installed.
>>
>> Can I install f8 ( from dvd or livecd ), download the fw43-cutter rpm 
>> under windows, use ntfs-utils to copy to the linux partition, install 
>> it, and Voila! ??
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Is fw43-cutter on the dvd?
> 
> Not as of test3.  I just adjusted comps so that it will be on the DVD
> and the live images for the final release to help making this hardware a
> little easier
> 

Installed b43-fwcutter and followed the instructions at 
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware

Got http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2

untarred that file and ran
b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmare broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o

that seemed to work, and populated /lib/firmware/b43/ with a bunch of 
*.fw files.

Then rmmod b43; modprobe -vv b43. No errors. Nothing in syslog.

Also loaded cfg80211 and mac80211.

Shouldn't I have seen the firmware being loaded in dmesg, or syslog?

Made sure NetworkManager was working. I can see the icon. No connection.

Now what? I've never tried to use Fedora with wireless, so I may be 
missing something obvious.

sean