[OpenWrt-Users] why you should always read the fine print

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, openwrt at email.de wrote:

> Oh, Broadcom wireless chipset. Well, you can try installing kmod-b43
> package then try again with wifi detect.

i just posted a followup email regarding this whole wireless support
on broadcom issue, but i'm curious now -- i just rebuilt an image for
the 2.6 kernel and selected broadcom wireless as the target profile,
but the kmod-b43 package was *not* selected for building and inclusion
in the final image.

so, if kmod-b43 would potentially give me working wifi, why is it not
selected for building and inclusion for that particular target?

rday

p.s.  i'm looking under bin/packages/mipsel for the list of
constructed packages and, since i don't see kmod-b43, i'm assuming it
wasn't selected, correct?

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