why is my wireless totally borked in f7?

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Wed Aug 1 18:08:25 UTC 2007


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.

-Andy




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