On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Simon Slater wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 09:21 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:52:18AM +1300, Peter Metcalf wrote: > > > > > > > I have a problem in that system-config-network sees the wireless card as > > > > a ethernet card so I don't know > > > > how to configure it. b43 is not listed in > > > > /usr/share/system-config-network/module-info but the b43 kernel module > > > > is present. > > > > > > I hear this complaint a lot -- anyone know how system-config-network > > > decides what is wireless versus what is ethernet? I think someone > > > told me before, but I ashamedly admit that I have forgotten. :-( > > > > > > In the meantime, have you considered using NetworkManager? > > > > i'm not sure if this might be a solution, but have you added the line > > > > alias wlan0 b43 > > > > to /etc/modprobe.conf? it's just a thought, i'm not sure it will fix > > your *exact* problem but it allows b43 to at least show up under the > > wireless card choices when you run system-config-network. > > > Does this require a reboot. BTW I'm working on same thing. no reboot required, at least as far as i can tell. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
