Problem with bcm43xx-80211 Revisited

[Andrew Robinson]

Martin Marques wrote:
> Andrew Robinson escribió:
>> Whenst last we left our hero, I had let yum upgrade my kernel on FC6 
>> to 2.6.22.1-32.fc6, which required bcm43xx drivers version 4. However, 
>> bcm43xx-fwcutter had not been upgraded and would not handle the new 
>> drives. Moving forward, last night I updated to the latest 
>> bcm43xx-fwcutter and extracted the version 4 drivers. My laptop's 
>> wireless now works but not at boot time. I have to run 'modprobe 
>> bcm43xx-mac80211' and 'ifup eth1' to get an actual network connection. 
>> I tried to illustrate the situation with the output below. It seems 
>> like there is a timing or order issue.
>>
>> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong or need to do differently to get the 
>> new version of bcm43xx working on my laptop?
>>
>>
> 
> # grep wlan0 /etc/modprobe.conf
> alias wlan0 bcm43xx-mac80211
> 
Question, what does that do to eth1? That's the name of the interface at 
the moment.

Thanks!

Andrew