On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > >> - check you have a wireless interface: iwconfig > > > > yup, wlan0, not currently encrypted, no access point, etc. > > > >> - bring it up: ifconfig wlan0 up > > > > huh? i'm not sure why that should work yet, and what i get is: > > > > SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory. > > > > nothing in the instructions you gave me talks about downloading new > > firmware. shouldn't that be part of the process? or are you not > > taking that into account here? > > "My instructions" are generic ones... I don't have your card nor use > your particular driver. Some common cards like ipw2200 and 3945 > actually have their firmware in base Fedora packages already, for > example. > > Bringing the device up with ifconfig is needed for mac80211-based > drivers, it looks like yours isn't. no, i'm currently following the instructions here to first get the appropriate firmware: http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras/ but those instructions are also maddeningly ambiguous since they tell me to figure out which firmware file to download based on what i read in a README file, which really doesn't nail it down, so i'm guessing i want the bcmwl5.sys file but there are dozens of versions listed under that title in that README file. *man*, i hate crappy documentation. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
