broadcom f9 network manager

[hunter232]

ao i recently put a fresh install on f9 on my dell inspiron 1501 laptop
i new i was going to have trouble with my wireless because i had touble with it on f8
i tried to get the firmware working with dangermouse's script i think that part is ok
but network manager shows my acess point sometimes and sometimes it doesn't and
when it does and i try to connect it tries to connect for awhile and says network disconected
any ideas!

my wireless card acording to lspci is

05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)

iwlist says
:

[root@localhost ~]# iwlist scanning 
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.  
eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.  
wmaster0  Interface doesn't support scanning.  
wlan0     No scan results  
pan0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

iwconfig says:

[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"NETGEAR"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:1B:2F:DC:1F:18   
          Tx-Power=27 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

pan0      no wireless extensions.

[hunter232]

well i got it to work
i enabled the rawhide repo(maybe not the best idea)
and i updated my kernel to

2.6.26-0.56.rc5.git2.fc10.i686

and it started to work

[hyperspace]

Originally Posted by hunter232

well i got it to work
i enabled the rawhide repo(maybe not the best idea)
and i updated my kernel to

2.6.26-0.56.rc5.git2.fc10.i686

and it started to work

May be good news for many of us, as they may have the NetworkManager problem fixed.

[HavockNM]

I'm having a similar problem. DM's script works well, but NM tries to negotiate the WEP key, fails, then disconnects. I am able to get on the internet while the negotiation is running.

What are the dangers / drawbacks enabling the rawhide repo?

Would enabling rawhide, updating the kernel, then disable rawhide work better?

[l3th4l]

Originally Posted by HavockNM

I'm having a similar problem. DM's script works well, but NM tries to negotiate the WEP key, fails, then disconnects. I am able to get on the internet while the negotiation is running.

What are the dangers / drawbacks enabling the rawhide repo?

Would enabling rawhide, updating the kernel, then disable rawhide work better?

I would also like to know about this and how to do it.