Quoting Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com:
On 5/9/07, Steven Haigh netwiz@crc.id.au wrote:
Is it a bcm43xx card? check your dmesg output and see if it needs a firmware file. If so, that's where you start. If not, ndiswrapper works :)
Thanks for that pointer ... I got bcm43xxx-fwcutter and extracted the firmware files from the bcmwl5.sys file on my Windows partition. Now the driver loads and dmesg indicates that it is scanning for networks. It even makes an authentication request, which fails. I've attached the bit of dmesg output that shows what it's doing (MAC address of my router redacted).
I have used system-config-network to set the SSID, channel, and hex password. I set the network "Mode:" to "Auto". The dialog does not offer a choice of WEP, WPA, etc. I've looked at the RedHat docs for setting up wireless networking and I think I've done everything suggested. What do I try next?
This is as far as I got in trying to get this working. I just couldn't get it to connect to my wireless gear. In the end, I ended up going with ndiswrapper. Things may have changed in this respect though - as this was ~8-10 months ago.