On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rick Stevens wrote: > You say you plan to use F7. Great. First, do a full update on it. > I wish I could tell you which drivers you need, but without the > output of "lspci -v" relating to your NIC, I can't tell. It's > generally either the bcm43xx driver or the bcm43xx-mac80211 driver. right, i'm already there -- that's all now documented at the aforementioned wiki page, based on a fully-updated F7 system: http://www.linux-games.ca/wiki/index.php/Rday%27s_installing_Broadcom_4318_wifi > The mac80211 drivers for F7 (2.6.22 and later) kernels need the V4 > version of the Broadcom firmware. Where you get that is up to you. > Most people download the Windows driver from the Broadcom site or here: > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/bcm43xx#devicefirmware > > and use fwcutter to cut out the firmware. Put the resulting file in > your /lib/firmware directory. um ... would that produce a different result from getting the tarball from downloads.openwrt.org? > Now you can try to "modprobe bcm43xx-mac80211" and see if you get a > wlan0 device. also documented at the wiki -- initially, it *is* that module that is loaded, and i have a wlan0 device as shown there. i'm still testing a few more things at the moment, and i'll wiki them as i discover them. rday
