On Thursday 07 June 2007, bucky wrote: >I'd be really interested in a guide explaining HOW to get the old >driver to work in Fedora 7. I tracked down and replaced my old >firmware files with 4.0 ones because /var/log/messages told me to. > >Except now trying to activate wlan0 tells me: > >Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) : > SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. > >Determining IP information for wlan0... failed. > >I'm presuming this means the firmware is now too new--I'm >really not sure. All I know is that the wireless card used to work >under FC6 and now it doesn't. > >I can tell you that /sbin/lspci gives me: >03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g >Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) > >and that /sbin/lspci -n tells me >03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03) > >...but this completely taxes the limits of my ability to diagnose my >own problem. I have tried Googling, but my search terms lead to very >discussions of the WPA Supplicant which are totally over my head, and >how this was a big problem in RedHat 9, but is All Fixed Now. > >I have gone to bcm43xx.berlios.de. The Support page tells me to RTFM, >and the Documentation pages for installation that aren't about >Debian and Ubuntu lead me to a page full of links for "Russian Woman" >and "Airline Travel"--but it seems cheaper to simply buy a new >wireless card than to travel to Russia and ask the women there for >tech support. :) >I replaced the firmware files with the ones I had before that used to >work and added "blacklist bcm43xx_mac80211" to >/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and rebooted. But that just made everything >worse. The driver didn't recognize the card at ALL anymore, even >though the bcm43xx driver was listed as the result of /sbin/lsmod. > >I'm stumped. And your email agent is broken, its doing html-like character substitutions without also applying the proper MIME type specs to allow our email readers to decode and restore the proper display formats. What the heck is PHPMailer?, I never heard of it before. >-- >This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal > https://fcp.surfsite.org > https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=175417&topic_i >d=38098&forum=10#forumpost175417 If you think, this is spam, please report > this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame bucky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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) What I want is all of the power and none of the responsibility.
