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How to get f9 preview to work with b43 wireless

No sound in FC9-Preview

surprising init behavior changing...

shmuel siegel

Wednesday, 23 April 2008 Wed, 23 Apr '08

7:17 p.m.

Out of the box the f9 preview recognized that I have a b43 wireless chip and assigned it to wlan0. Unfortunately, I couldn't activate it. Do we still have to use b43cutter in f9?

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Will Woods

Wednesday, 23 April Wed, 23 Apr

7:55 p.m.

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:17 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:

Out of the box the f9 preview recognized that I have a b43 wireless chip and assigned it to wlan0. Unfortunately, I couldn't activate it. Do we still have to use b43cutter in f9?

Yes, until Broadcom decides to let us redistribute their firmware. Which probably won't happen soon. Maybe never. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383271 - that's the packaging request. If we ever get legal approval, that bug will be updated. Don't hold your breath, though. -w

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Will Woods

7:58 p.m.

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:55 -0400, Will Woods wrote:

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:17 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote: > Out of the box the f9 preview recognized that I have a b43 wireless chip > and assigned it to wlan0. Unfortunately, I couldn't activate it. Do we > still have to use b43cutter in f9? Yes, until Broadcom decides to let us redistribute their firmware. Which probably won't happen soon. Maybe never.

On the plus side, 'dmesg' or /var/log/messages should now have a nice clear message that gives the URL to get the proper firmware file from. So that's helpful. -w

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