Why can't I activate my wireless card?

[Anne Wilson]

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.
> 
A great deal more digging, reading and experimenting got me no further.  
Eventually I ended up on IRC at #bcm-users where I was told that I probably 
need the brcm80211 driver.  Basically, the advice was that I might have to 
install compat-wireless or build the kernel from staging to include it, but I 
see in an OpenSUSE forum topic that the driver is in the 2.6.37 kernel.

Do you know if this is in the pipeline for F14?  If it's in Rawhide will it be 
installable in F14, or do I have to wait for F15 (or a late beta thereof)?

Anne
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