why is my wireless totally borked in f7?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, John W. Linville wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:50:49PM -0700, alan wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> > >	Explain to me how your gateway laptop has broadcom drivers loaded? I
> > >agree that F7 is not a very good version of Linux because it's too new.
> > >Lots of my stuff doesn't work either. But I got my laptop working with F7
> > >but it was a fight.
> >
> > Just because the driver has loaded does not mean it will work.  See my
> > last message on the version 3 v.s. version 4 firmware issue.  My laptop
> > will load the new broadcom driver.  it will not work because my bcm4306
> > chipset does not have enough memory to load the version 4 firmware.
>
> Have you followed my directions to setup your box to use the old driver?
>
> 	https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-July/msg02069.html


before i do that, i'm just trying to verify what i *have* on this
system.  on a gateway laptop running f7, i can see in /var/log/dmesgl
the lines:

bmc43xx_mac80211:  Broadcom 4318 WLAN found.
...
followed by a few more lines about that device i can reproduce if
necessary.  so that looks like a good sign.

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?

rday