broadcom wireless under F7 -- the recipe(?)

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote:

> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
> >   is there anything else that would be worth examining and recording
> > before going any further?  i like making a record of stuff like this
> > so i can compare what changes.
>
> If you're on WPA, you might also be interested to capture the default
>
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant
>
> The sysconfig one is particularly insane by default.

ah, good point.  i'm just going with WEP for now but i'll make a side
note of that.

and onward, i've just installed the "bcm43xx-fwcutter" package, and
i'm downloading the firmware from
http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
which is what is listed as the appropriate content for F7.

so far, so good?  i just want to verify that that's the right firmware
file before going any further.  i'm paranoid that way.  :-)

rday
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