Broadcom 4318 wireless again ...

Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage at gmx.de
Tue Aug 28 17:08:22 UTC 2007


John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 06:25:40PM +0200, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>
>   
>> I have found a good place to load the bcm43xx driver to be rc.sysinit, 
>> to where I moved the two lines from rc.local after line 301, right after 
>> the 'fix console loglevel'  block. When the driver gets loaded thus 
>> early, wpa_supplicant should be ok.
>>     
>
> FWIW, dwmw2 pointed-out to me that a cleaner solution is to drop
> the attached file into /etc/modprobe.d and remove the lines put into
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and /etc/rc.local by the bcm43xx-old-config
> script.
>   
Thanks, John, this solution works fine with me, and I'm happy with it.
But I still can't understand the strange behavior of the new driver on 
my system (cf. my initial post in this thread) ...
Klaus




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