Tiny wiki update suggestion

Jared Norris jrnorris at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 09:38:28 UTC 2011


On 5 November 2011 08:49, Denis Roberts <denisroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I went on the ubuntu community forum to get help with a networking issue and
> was very quickly directed to this page on the wiki:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Broadcom_BCM4311_Natty_11.04?highlight=%28ManufacturerModel%29
> which helped me fix my problem instantly.
> However my case was slightly different, because it was on Ubuntu 11.10 and
> instead of this command:
> sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf
> I needed to use:
> sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf
> probably because the generic driver installer had changed its method of
> blacklisting certain things to make it easier to remove!
> I tried to add this info to the wiki page but even after logging in and
> clicking the "show editing tools" button at the bottom of the page I
> couldn't work out how to edit the page.
> So if that alteration is useful enough to be added to the wiki, I leave it
> with you.
>
>
> thanks,
> Denis
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>

I've just tacked on a note to the wiki page to state your findings. It
seems a bit odd that the creator of that wiki page would name it as
such as it doesn't really follow the usual convention.

If someone has some time and wants to rewrite it properly please do.
I'll put it on my "todo" list but that's a rather large list at this
point in time.


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Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
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