one more time -- broadcom wireless on f7 [SUCCESS!!]

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   there is little value in listing the 6 variations i've tried,
> > just so someone can say, "here, here's a 7th possibility, maybe
> > *that'll* work."
>
> Isn't that exactly what you have to do in a case like this?
> By the time you get to variation 12, it will probably work.

  actually, i stripped the recipe down to its bare essentials and,
amazingly enough, i am now on the net.  the sordid details are, of
course, documented here:

http://www.linux-games.ca/wiki/index.php/Rday%27s_installing_Broadcom_4318_wifi

  in short, i ignored all of the documentation regarding
NetworkManager and modprobe.conf and blacklisting and all the rest,
and just used iwconfig, ifconfig and dhclient to finally get
connected.  sometimes, the simple ways are the best.

rday
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