broadcom wireless under F7 -- the recipe(?)

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, John W. Linville wrote:

> 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.

but i don't always use fedora kernels, i frequently use the latest
source and roll my own, so i'm assuming i should still use the above
in those cases, right?

and will that fedora patch eventually be pushed upstream?

rday