the final configuration -- after messing with "modprobe" and
blacklisting the bcm43xx module, i started the NetworkManager and
NetworkManagerDispatch services and rebooted, to see this (eth0 is the
wired interface, of course):
# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:25:35:4D:61
inet addr:192.168.1.114 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::203:25ff:fe35:4d61/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:157 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:209 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15177 (14.8 KiB) TX bytes:38644 (37.7 KiB)
Interrupt:20
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:11273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:88407696 (84.3 MiB) TX bytes:88407696 (84.3 MiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:5C:CA:D0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-14-A5-5C-CA-D0-08-1F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
# iwlist wlan0 scan
... i can see! i can see! ...
does this look reasonable? at this point, i assume i would go into
network admin and configure wlan0 for the SSID, channel and so on,
yes?
rday
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