On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:50:49PM -0700, alan wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Karl Larsen wrote: > > > > > Explain to me how your gateway laptop has broadcom drivers loaded? I > > >agree that F7 is not a very good version of Linux because it's too new. > > >Lots of my stuff doesn't work either. But I got my laptop working with F7 > > >but it was a fight. > > > > Just because the driver has loaded does not mean it will work. See my > > last message on the version 3 v.s. version 4 firmware issue. My laptop > > will load the new broadcom driver. it will not work because my bcm4306 > > chipset does not have enough memory to load the version 4 firmware. > > Have you followed my directions to setup your box to use the old driver? > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-July/msg02069.html before i do that, i'm just trying to verify what i *have* on this system. on a gateway laptop running f7, i can see in /var/log/dmesgl the lines: bmc43xx_mac80211: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found. ... followed by a few more lines about that device i can reproduce if necessary. so that looks like a good sign. however, when i go to "System" -> "Administration" -> "Network", there is no entry for wireless and, if i select that i want to add one, the only choice i'm given is "Other wireless card". i would have thought i would be shown the internal broadcom device. am i already confused by what i should be seeing here? rday
