8.04 networking seems awfully broken.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-07-24, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> I found recipes in forum postings.  Was the installer supposed
>> to do something?
>
> No.  The "hardware drivers manager" does (jockey-kde in KDE and jockey-gtk
> in Gnome), _after_ you start your desktop.

I didn't see anything.  After I noticed that wan0 wasn't
associating no matter how many times I ran the network-manager,
I started sifting through the sysmem log and found an error
message from the bt43 driver saying that it couldn't find a
firmware file.  After some googling through the forums, I found
the recipe for download the firmware and the extractor and
generating the required .fw files.

> Maybe not 30 - but in my case it did require some time before
> Jockey told me about the required firmware.

Maybe I didn't wait long enough, but it probably took me at
least a hour of looking at system logs and googling before I
had the firmware files installed.  Nothing popped up during
that time.

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