what are my chances of getting wireless working on F8T1?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Will Woods wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:40 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > the scenario:  a gateway MX8711 laptop, fresh install of F8T1, and
> > whose /var/log/dmesg reads:
> >
> > ...
> > bcm43xx-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found
> > ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1
> > bcm43xx-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2, Revision 8
> > bcm43xx-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
> > bcm43xx-phy0 debug: Radio turned off
> > ...
> >
> >   so, to make a long question short, does anyone have a recipe for
> > getting wireless up and running on this system?  the first time i ran
> > system-config-network and tried to add a wireless interface, i was
> > presented with a choice of "Other Wireless Card" and that's it.
>
> Don't bother with system-config-network.
>
> bcm43xx cards need firmware (that Broadcom won't let us package and
> redistribute, grr) to operate. Have you gotten the firmware
> installed?
>
> If not - install the bcm43xx-fwcutter and read the README therein
> for a long list of places to get firmware. You'll need 4.x firmware
> for that driver/card, probably.

don't worry -- this has been hashed out thoroughly on the fedora list,
and i now have a relatively accurate wiki entry explaining the
process:


http://www.linux-games.ca/wiki/index.php/Rday%27s_installing_Broadcom_4318_wifi

rday
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