Re: detecting wireless vs wired?

["Steven Cote" <steven cote gmail com>]

> How does NetworkManager detect whether a connection is wired vs
> wireless?  I updated my FC5 system last night, and now NetworkManager
> shows my wireless card as wired -- if I click on the NetworkManager
> icon,  I see my normal wired network connection (disabled) and my
> wireless as "Wired Network (Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
> Wireless LAN Controller)".

I think the general consensus on this bug is that it's a problem with
the bcm43xx driver and not HAL or NetworkManager. As far as I know,
there's not a solution yet, but I believe people are working on it.

Have a look here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191557

Does anyone on the know more about the situation than that?