Fedora with HP Pavilion - wireless not working

UPDATE (April 4, 2010) - It's working perfectly with Fedora 12

My wife has an HP Pavilion dv1000 laptop which has started to run very slow using windows xp. She still needs windows to connect remotely to her work, but otherwise she just needs internet, and word processing.

I first tried Ubuntu. I got everything working except the wireless.

I followed all the steps outlined here...

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

It appears that the firmware was updated correctly, and the drivers are installed. The problem seems to be with connecting to a router. I am not able to connect to mine, or any other router/wireless network.

Afterwards, I installed Fedora 11 instead. Once again, everything (including direct ethernet) is working except the wireless. The firmware and drivers appear to be correct.

Here are some details about the system...

[root@ruby ruby]# sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz
Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[root@ruby ruby]# sudo ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:36:22:75:57
inet addr:192.168.3.101 Bcast:192.168.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:36ff:fe22:7557/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:580 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:261810 (255.6 KiB) TX bytes:107320 (104.8 KiB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2388 (2.3 KiB) TX bytes:2388 (2.3 KiB)

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