FC5 with bcm43xx support (HOWTO)

[Bill Nottingham]

David Woodhouse (dwmw2 at infradead.org) said: 
> > I tried the second suggested method
> > 
> > cp /usr/share/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003/modprobe.bcm43xx /etc/modprobe.d
> > 
> > however, after restarting, the 'bcm43xx' Module did not get loaded
> > (checked with 'lsmod').
> 
> Hm. I think there's something weird going on with udevstart, which I
> think is supposed to generate 'hotplug' events for every PCI device in
> the system at startup. It _isn't_ generating hotplug events for the
> network card, unless the driver is already loaded -- which is fairly
> useless since if the driver is already loaded we don't need to load it.
> 
> I'm a bit lost as to how this is all supposed to work these days. Bill?

It walks /sys, looking for uevent files, and echos into them to regenerate
the event.

Bill