[conspire] Fedora 12 wireless hell

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Tony Godshall (tony at of.net):

> [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'

Good tip.  Thanks!  I didn't know that, having thus far managed to
always either use hardware that doesn't need propriatery firmware 'blob'
files or prepositioning them.