On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Martin Marques wrote:
> 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.
ok, i'm confused again, because i got my other gateway laptop (with
that very broadcom mini-PCI chip) on the net using the same
instructions as before, and the same module -- i didn't have to do
anything with a "bcm43xx-80211" module. (in fact, i just searched
under /lib/modules on a fresh f8-t1 install, and there isn't even a
module by that name. are you sure that's the correct spelling?
where did it come from?)
> 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
^^^^^^^^
ok, i'm assuming *that's* the correct spelling, except that it has an
underscore, not a hyphen. but i didn't have to do anything explicit
with that module since it was already loaded, so i don't understand
why you needed to do an explicit modprobe.
however, even with that module loaded and the firmware installed,
system-config-network doesn't show me that chip, so i'm back to doing
it the manual way, same as before. if you got that broadcom chip to
show up in system-config-network, i'd love to know how.
rday
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