and the successes keep piling up. i used exactly the same recipe on a different model gateway laptop (MX8711 versus MX7120) with a different broadcom chip: * previous: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] * new one: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI and installed (stock, not even updated) F8-T1 instead of F7. worked just fine. i'm happy. i will update the wiki page to reflect this. yee ha. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================