Greetings; I just installed the i386 F7 on an HP dv5120us, which has a broadcom 4318 radio in it. According to dmesg, it was disabled at boot time. bcm43xx_mac80211 and friends are loaded according to lsmod. I haven't yet went through the pain of mounting the ntfs partition to gain access to the windows bcmwl* drivers, nor of installing fwcutter and ndiswrapper. However it seems to me that in order for any of this to work, the radio must first be turned on, and none of the tools installed seem to have the ability to turn it back on once the boot process has turned it off. KwifiManager only shows the disable option. There is also a button under the led in the hinge that controls it, but there is apparently no tally available to detect if its enabled or not, and rebooting to find out seems to be a kludge, which is what I had to do when FC5 was installed on this lappy. So step #1 is turning it back on. What tool is used, and how is this accomplished? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I am a computer. I am dumber than any human and smarter than any administrator.
