How to get f9 preview to work with b43 wireless

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Wed Apr 23 18:55:26 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:17 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> Out of the box the f9 preview recognized that I have a b43 wireless chip 
> and assigned it to wlan0. Unfortunately, I couldn't activate it. Do we 
> still have to use b43cutter in f9?

Yes, until Broadcom decides to let us redistribute their firmware. Which
probably won't happen soon. Maybe never.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383271 - that's the
packaging request. If we ever get legal approval, that bug will be
updated.

Don't hold your breath, though.

-w
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