one more time -- broadcom wireless on f7

[Martin Marques]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> in other words, "if that doesn't work, try ...".    exactly the kind
> of advice i was hoping to avoid.
> 
> seriously, if you have the same setup i have, and you have a reliable
> way to get wireless to work on f7/f8t1, by all means, drop me a note
> offline and let me know what magic you used.  but, please, no notes
> along the lines of "well, you might want to try *this* ..."  i've
> "tried" a number of alleged solution -- now i'm ready for one that
> simply works.  why is that such an unreasonable request?

Try exactly what is said in:

http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3014.html

except that you should try with the bcm43xx-80211 driver.

BTW: Which is exactly the chip of the WLAN? What does lspci -vv give you 
for the WLAN PCI card?

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