Why can't I activate my wireless card?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 8 16:00:11 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 08 February 2011 15:26:33 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Thanks.  That's too old, but it got me on the right lines, giving me some
> > clues of things to search for.  I started with "yum search broadcom",
> > then installed b43* (some of which were already installed), broadcom-wl
> > and kmod- wl.
> 
> Uh, it's either the b43 stuff or the broadcom-wl stuff, they're 2 different
> drivers for Broadcom wireless hardware.
> 
OK, thanks.  Removing broadcom-wl also removes kmod-wl which sounds 
reasonable.  IIRC restarting the network service is for those not controlled 
by NM, so do I have to reboot now?

Anne
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