On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:28 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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? I don't know whether need to run NetworkManager but running it and NetworkManagerDispatcher and stop network from running will probably give you a better wireless experience. It would be worht giving it a try. > > 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 > ======================================================================== > -- ======================================================================= Sometimes you get an almost irresistible urge to go on living. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
