Fedora Core 5 Test Update: kernel-2.6.17-1.2138_FC5

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 6/22/06, Patrick <fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
[bcm43xx wireless driver]
> Thanks for the tip. Tried it and it seems to sort of work. If I select
> an AP without a lock from the list in the NetworkManager applet, Softmac
> seems to get stuck with this message in /var/log/messages:

As far as I know, NetworkManager doesn't work properly with the
bcm43xx driver; it seems to start things up in the wrong order,
causing the symptoms you described. This seems to be the relevant bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180369

Don't know it the fix that was specified in that bug has yet been
applied, but I suspect not.

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster
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