Problem with bcm43xx-80211 Revisited

[Andrew Robinson]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> 
>> Whenst last we left our hero, I had let yum upgrade my kernel on FC6
>> to 2.6.22.1-32.fc6, which required bcm43xx drivers version 4.
>> However, bcm43xx-fwcutter had not been upgraded and would not handle
>> the new drives. Moving forward, last night I updated to the latest
>> bcm43xx-fwcutter and extracted the version 4 drivers. My laptop's
>> wireless now works but not at boot time. I have to run 'modprobe
>> bcm43xx-mac80211' and 'ifup eth1' to get an actual network
>> connection.
> 
> a wild shot in the dark -- what about adding
> 
> alias eth1 bcm43xx-mac80211
> 
> to /etc/modprobe.conf?
> 
It's already there.

Andrew