On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Martin Marques wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > in other words, "if that doesn't work, try ...". exactly the kind > > of advice i was hoping to avoid. > > > > seriously, if you have the same setup i have, and you have a reliable > > way to get wireless to work on f7/f8t1, by all means, drop me a note > > offline and let me know what magic you used. but, please, no notes > > along the lines of "well, you might want to try *this* ..." i've > > "tried" a number of alleged solution -- now i'm ready for one that > > simply works. why is that such an unreasonable request? > > Try exactly what is said in: > > http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3014.html > > except that you should try with the bcm43xx-80211 driver. no offense, martin, but this is precisely what drives me a little bit nuts about all the advice i've been getting. first, that very web page starts off by saying "Install bcm4300-fwcutter" and, as the command, states: yum install bcm43xx-fwcutter not a fatal typo, but why the mismatch in package names? sloppy. second, step 5 claims that "You can either reboot or run the command below modprobe bcm43xx i can guarantee that those two operations are *not* equivalent since rebooting will *not* cause the bcm43xx module to be loaded (i tested that this morning). in short, that step is flat out wrong. and, finally, what is the "bcm43xx-80211" driver to which you refer to above? do you actually mean the correctly named "bcm43xx_mac80211" driver? you can see what i'm talking about now -- lots of advice that contains typoes or that cannot possibly be correct. i appreciate the obvious good intentions, but please stop giving me advice that you are simply pulling out of thin air. it's not helping. rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
