broadcom radio off in dmesg

[David G. Miller]

Jerry W. Whitmire wrote:

> If i post my dmesg could some one look it over
> and let me know how to get my droadcom wireless
> card to turn on? It is setup as eth1.
> thanks

Did you ever get an answer on this?  On my HP Pavilion laptop there 
seems to be two different levels of "off".  One is soft and corresponds 
to just not loading an appropriate driver such as ndiswrapper or 
bcm43xx.  The other is hard and I found this out the hard way.  When I 
first got the laptop I didn't have any wireless APs so, while it was up 
in Windows, I used the keyboard wireless button on the beasty to turn 
off the capability.  Big mistake. 

I very soon loaded Fedora (FC4 Test 3) and then found out there were 
some useful APs about so I set about getting wireless working.  Turned 
out that the only way to turn the radio back on was to boot to Windoze 
and toggle it back on from the switch.  Since I had zapped windoze 
completely, this meant a full re-install of windoze which I did when FC4 
final was released and I need to upgrade from T3 to the production 
release. 

I ended up giving Windoze 10GB of my hard disk and setting up dual boot 
just in case there were other things that I needed to get to.  Not all 
that unexpectedly, BIOS updates required booting to Windoze.

Cheers,
Dave

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