why is my wireless totally borked in f7?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote:

> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
> > but those instructions are also maddeningly ambiguous since they tell
> > me to figure out which firmware file to download based on what i read
> > in a README file, which really doesn't nail it down, so i'm guessing i
> > want the bcmwl5.sys file but there are dozens of versions listed under
> > that title in that README file.  *man*, i hate crappy documentation.
>
> To be fair, things are this crazy with per-chipset firmwire cutters
> and whatnot because Broadcomm and others won't allow redistribution
> of their firmware (even though you need to buy their chip to make
> any use of it!).  Maybe this bit of history about Broadcomm will put
> it into perspective
>
> http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article2783216.ece
>
> Intel for example don't suffer from that madness with regards to
> their firmware and the ipw2200 and 3945 firmwares at least are stock
> Fedora packages.

as we speak, i'm starting from scratch with a newly-installed and
updated F7 system, and i'm going to document each step carefully.
more coming soon.

rday
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