How to get f9 preview to work with b43 wireless

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Wed Apr 23 18:58:43 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:55 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> 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.

On the plus side, 'dmesg' or /var/log/messages should now have a nice
clear message that gives the URL to get the proper firmware file from.
So that's helpful.

-w
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