broadcom wireless under F7 -- the recipe(?)
John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com
Thu Aug 2 13:23:48 UTC 2007
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:52:57AM +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > and, moving on, here's what appears to be the final(?) steps in the
> > recipe (from
> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156282):
> >
> >
> > # bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware ~fedora/wl_apsta.o
> > # echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
> > # modprobe -r bcm43xx
> > # modprobe -r ieee80211softmac
> > # modprobe -r ieee80211_crypt
> > # modprobe -r ieee80211
> > # modprobe -r bcm43xx_mac80211
> > # modprobe bcm43xx_mac80211
> >
> > "Then I plugged along and enabled NetworkManager and
> > NetworkManagerDispatcher"
> >
> > does all of that sound sane? if so, i'll give it a shot.
>
> Since both the old ieee80211 stack driver and the new mac80211-based one
> both want to own the same device ID at the moment, your workaround
> sounds very needed.
The Fedora kernels carry a patch to geld the PCI ID table of the
bcm43xx driver. So, all that modprobing and blacklisting should
be unnecessary.
John
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John W. Linville
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