Somebody in the thread at some point said: > and, moving on, here's what appears to be the final(?) steps in the > recipe (from > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156282): > > > # bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware ~fedora/wl_apsta.o > # echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > # modprobe -r bcm43xx > # modprobe -r ieee80211softmac > # modprobe -r ieee80211_crypt > # modprobe -r ieee80211 > # modprobe -r bcm43xx_mac80211 > # modprobe bcm43xx_mac80211 > > "Then I plugged along and enabled NetworkManager and > NetworkManagerDispatcher" > > does all of that sound sane? if so, i'll give it a shot. Since both the old ieee80211 stack driver and the new mac80211-based one both want to own the same device ID at the moment, your workaround sounds very needed. I was never able to get Network Manager to work with my WPA network past scanning for APs, maybe it can work okay with no encryption though. -Andy
