broadcom wireless under F7 -- the recipe(?)

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> so far, so good?  i just want to verify that that's the right firmware
> file before going any further.  i'm paranoid that way.  :-)

I'm sorry I don't have that device, I don't know.  But it is the case
that "firmware" is a bit of a misnomer for the wireless devices I have
met, in fact this file is getting loaded into SRAM on the device, not
flash or anything.  So any problems caused by the wrong firmware should
not live through a powerdown of the device.

WEP is completely unsafe though, aircrack and related tools can crack it
with relative ease.  Unless you live in the wilderness WPA is a
necessity (and I use ssh tunnels for everything, including all web
traffic proxied through one, inside that in addition).

-Andy