Does Fedora 7 support my wireless device?

[John Lagrue]

Or perhaps not so much in luck. It certainly doesn't seem to want to
work, at least, not with NetworkManager. Disconnecting the wired
connection does not start NM scans for wireless devices. If fact, the
wireless light does not come on.

And if I go to the command line and try ifup eth1 then I get "bcm43xx
device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."

Any ideas?

On 03/06/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 16:16 +0100, John Lagrue wrote:
> > ok....
> >
> > installed the package and then used it to extract the firmware from my
> > driver files for the XP with which I dual-boot. This is a 64-bit
> > machine, so I assumed that I should use the bcmwl564.sys file. It
> > extracted ok, but gave me this warning:
> >
> > "This file contains new version4
> > firmware. v4 firmware is _not_ supported by
> > the driver in mainline kernels. For v4 firmware
> > you need latest bcm43xx development version
> > (wireless-dev kernel tree). If you don't know what
> > this warning is about, use a 3.xx.xx.xx driver version
> > instead to extract the firmware."
> >
> > What should I do next?
> >
> You're in luck.  The v4 firmware _is_ supported by the Fedora kernel
> because it's using the new bcm43xx driver.  Simply copy the bcm43xx
> files extracted by fwcutter to /lib/firmware, and you should be set.
>
> Jonathan
>
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