On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > 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? > > If you do an > > iwconfig > > you should see wlan0 listed if all is well. But probably nothing > will be well unless you have the righteous firmware in /lib/firmware > already. right now, i'm doing a fresh install on that laptop, and i'm going to carefully document what the state of the world is starting there. first question -- do i need to be running NetworkManager? that's a new service for me, is it necessary or can i ignore it for now? also, what should i document when that system comes up? as a prelim list: - any references to wireless in dmesg/messages - output of "iwconfig" - what shows up in the "Network" admin client - contents of /lib/firmware related to wireless anything else? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
