On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:54:59 -0400, b.j. mcclure wrote: [...]
Your firmware appears to be installed and the wl driver you compiled appears to be loaded. If the driver and firmware are compatible then I would check that Network Manager is running and Networking and Wireless Networking are enabled in the NM applet. Network Manager should create an auto-<ssid_of_accesspoint> configuration file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
If that all looks o.k. I'll have to pass the baton to someone that may have experience with your driver.
The stock driver (b43) does work on my machine although on some routers dhcp does not work and I have had to configure a static IP to get a connection. ymmv.
B.J.
CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)
My NetworkManager doesn't work (that's another problem, but low priority), and it is my intention to use wpa_supplicant and dhclient from the command line. But obviously, if I can't see anything with ifconfig, I can't do that. ifconfig did work before I made the changes. With regard do compatibility between the firmware and the driver, I could not say. Maybe that is the problem.
Thanks for your help. Mike.