why is my wireless totally borked in f7?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote:

> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
> > however, when i go to "System" -> "Administration" -> "Network", there
> > is no entry for wireless and, if i select that i want to add one, the
> > only choice i'm given is "Other wireless card".  i would have thought
> > i would be shown the internal broadcom device.  am i already confused
> > by what i should be seeing here?
>
> If you do an
>
> iwconfig
>
> you should see wlan0 listed if all is well.  But probably nothing
> will be well unless you have the righteous firmware in /lib/firmware
> already.

right now, i'm doing a fresh install on that laptop, and i'm going to
carefully document what the state of the world is starting there.
first question -- do i need to be running NetworkManager?  that's a
new service for me, is it necessary or can i ignore it for now?

also, what should i document when that system comes up?  as a prelim
list:

- any references to wireless in dmesg/messages
- output of "iwconfig"
- what shows up in the "Network" admin client
- contents of /lib/firmware related to wireless

anything else?

rday
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