Problem with bcm43xx-80211 Revisited

[Robert P. J. Day]

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?

rday

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