Acer Aspire One, Wifi, and Fedora 15

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:05:55PM -0400, Eric Mesa wrote:

>    linuxwireless.org/en/users/drivers/brcm80211*says that my wifi chip is
>    in the 2.6.38 kernel. *That page tells me to d/l some firmware files
>    to a specific directory. *I went there and those files are already
>    there. *But I don't have any wireless configured.

The driver is in staging rather than the main kernel, and we typically 
only enable drivers in staging if there's someone who's willing and able 
to handle the maintenance of the driver. So it's expected to fail to 
work, I'm afraid.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org