Quoting Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>: > On 5/9/07, Steven Haigh <netwiz at 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. -- Steven Haigh Email: netwiz at crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474