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:
>
> >>  - check you have a wireless interface: iwconfig
> >
> > yup, wlan0, not currently encrypted, no access point, etc.
> >
> >>  - bring it up:  ifconfig wlan0 up
> >
> > huh?  i'm not sure why that should work yet, and what i get is:
> >
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS:  No such file or directory.
> >
> > nothing in the instructions you gave me talks about downloading new
> > firmware.  shouldn't that be part of the process?  or are you not
> > taking that into account here?
>
> "My instructions" are generic ones... I don't have your card nor use
> your particular driver.  Some common cards like ipw2200 and 3945
> actually have their firmware in base Fedora packages already, for
> example.
>
> Bringing the device up with ifconfig is needed for mac80211-based
> drivers, it looks like yours isn't.

no, i'm currently following the instructions here to first get the
appropriate firmware:

  http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras/

but those instructions are also maddeningly ambiguous since they tell
me to figure out which firmware file to download based on what i read
in a README file, which really doesn't nail it down, so i'm guessing i
want the bcmwl5.sys file but there are dozens of versions listed under
that title in that README file.  *man*, i hate crappy documentation.

rday
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