Robert P. J. Day escribió:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Martin Marques wrote:
Robert P. J. Day escribió:
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
I have this exact one on my Compaq Presario, and Networkmarager just
doesn't work with the WLAN.
system-config-network and a network restart made it work.
ok, there's another mystery i would like to clear up. when you say
you used system-config-network, are you saying that you can actually
see the broadcom chip?
No. I had to download the firmware and modprobe bcm43xx-80211.
As a matter of fact: The documentation out there on the web is
erroneous. It always talks about using the bcm43xx module, when for the
BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI you have to use the new bcm43xx-80211.
Once modprobe was correctly executed, the wlan0 interface gets up and
you can configure it with system-config-network.
P.D.: I did have to add this line to /etc/modprobe.conf
alias wlan0 bcm43xx-mac80211
