On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:28 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
> > however, when i go to "System" -> "Administration" ->
"Network", there
> > is no entry for wireless and, if i select that i want to add one, the
> > only choice i'm given is "Other wireless card". i would have
thought
> > i would be shown the internal broadcom device. am i already confused
> > by what i should be seeing here?
>
> If you do an
>
> iwconfig
>
> you should see wlan0 listed if all is well. But probably nothing
> will be well unless you have the righteous firmware in /lib/firmware
> already.
right now, i'm doing a fresh install on that laptop, and i'm going to
carefully document what the state of the world is starting there.
first question -- do i need to be running NetworkManager? that's a
new service for me, is it necessary or can i ignore it for now?
I don't know
whether need to run NetworkManager but running it and
NetworkManagerDispatcher and stop network from running will probably
give you a better wireless experience. It would be worht giving it a
try.
also, what should i document when that system comes up? as a prelim
list:
- any references to wireless in dmesg/messages
- output of "iwconfig"
- what shows up in the "Network" admin client
- contents of /lib/firmware related to wireless
anything else?
rday
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