FC5 with bcm43xx support (HOWTO)

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 21:49:22 UTC 2006


No luck here.
uname -a
Linux nbecker4 2.6.16-1.2074_FC5 #1 SMP Fri Mar 24 18:59:15 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I did: 
modprobe bcm43xx.

Then:
/sbin/iwlist scan:
eth1      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:12:17:CB:10:CF
                    ESSID:"nbecker"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:1
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality=100/100  Signal level=-68 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 10604ms ago

Good!.  Now /sbin/service NetworkManager restart.

Too bad.  Stopped working.
sbin/iwlist scan
eth1      No scan results

/var/log/messages has lots of messages, but not sure what would be useful post here.




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