It’s happening.  …I’m getting used to using Linux as my daily desktop OS.  Gotta’ say I never thought I’d see the day.

My rebuild to the 64-bit version for FC9 went fine.  No new issues came about because of it.  I used K3b to burn the ISO and it went off without a hitch.  I started the install with a false hope that my problems getting my wireless card to work would magically fix themselves …but no, it gave the exact same error as before.  I tinkered around some more and began to think that SELinux was causing my problem.  I put SELinux in permissive mode to see if that would help (it didn’t).  To completely rule SELinux out as the problem I then permanently disabled it.  That didn’t fix it either.  Since that seemed to be proof enough that SELinux wasn’t the problem, I re-enabled it.  I returned to Google to see if I could track down some more info on the error I was getting and finally came across some people who were using same P.O.S. wireless card as me (Broadcom 43xx).  Their posts sent me to http://www.freewebs.com/dnmouse/autoinstall.html and that pretty much sorted things out.  The autonine install script automated the installation of the correct WLAN drivers and everything started working quite nicely.  If you are silly enough to have purchased a Dell Inspiron 1501 (like me) then you will likely find yourself in the same boat with your WLAN connectivity.  Autonine.  ‘nuf said.

Colin