OraMatt: YABAOracle

While my MacBookPro is in the shop getting it’s GPU replaced I needed a spare laptop. So I grabbed one of my old Dells and decided to slap Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.5 on it.

Oracle Enterprise Linux is geared for the datacenter and enterprise deployments but I didn’t want to install Ubuntu…and then hack at it to get an Oracle Database running on it…

Knowing that…during the install process I selected ‘Customize’ and made sure to install the following packages for WiFi support of my Broadcom card:

firmware-b43-installer b43-fwcutter

The install completed without incident and I thought I was G2G (good to go) but after it rebooted…NO WIFI…WTF!!?!?!??!?

Thinking about it for a bit I decided to check /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Sure enough … a quick cat & grep of the blacklist.conf showed the following:

cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf | egrep ‘bcm’
blacklist bcm43xx

So I vi the blacklist.conf file, commented out (#blacklist bcm43mm) and rebooted!

And bingo bango Bob’s your uncle I’m free of my cat5 shackles!!!