On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > is there anything else that would be worth examining and recording > > before going any further? i like making a record of stuff like this > > so i can compare what changes. > > If you're on WPA, you might also be interested to capture the default > > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf > /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant > > The sysconfig one is particularly insane by default. ah, good point. i'm just going with WEP for now but i'll make a side note of that. and onward, i've just installed the "bcm43xx-fwcutter" package, and i'm downloading the firmware from http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 which is what is listed as the appropriate content for F7. so far, so good? i just want to verify that that's the right firmware file before going any further. i'm paranoid that way. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================