... [Rick wrote] > And, you know what? I'm betting that your sole problem is not having > that firmware image, so you may now be in luck. ... [my 2c] If the system identifies the right driver but there's no firmware for it, dmesg should show you a message to that effect. It did when I had to configure "the dreaded b43". # dmesg|egrep -i 'firmware|b43' Tony