why is my wireless totally borked in f7?
John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com
Thu Jul 26 00:34:14 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:50:49PM -0700, alan wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
> > Explain to me how your gateway laptop has broadcom drivers loaded? I
> >agree that F7 is not a very good version of Linux because it's too new.
> >Lots of my stuff doesn't work either. But I got my laptop working with F7
> >but it was a fight.
>
> Just because the driver has loaded does not mean it will work. See my
> last message on the version 3 v.s. version 4 firmware issue. My laptop
> will load the new broadcom driver. it will not work because my bcm4306
> chipset does not have enough memory to load the version 4 firmware.
Have you followed my directions to setup your box to use the old driver?
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-July/msg02069.html
John
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