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I recently installed Fedora 11 on a Dell Inspiron 14. I think it uses a Dell 802.11b/g Wireless LAN. Windows Vista can detect it but Fedora 11 can't. How can I fix this?

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  • What is your network card?
    – harrymc
    Oct 11, 2009 at 14:14
  • what model of inspiron? Oct 11, 2009 at 14:33
  • Inspiron 14. How can I determine what my network card is?
    – Randell
    Oct 11, 2009 at 14:55
  • What driver does Windows Vista use with this wireless card?
    – fpmurphy
    Oct 11, 2009 at 15:45
  • @fpmurphy, how can I determine that? Can it be found somewhere in dmesg?
    – Randell
    Oct 11, 2009 at 16:02

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Try to connect wired first, then get latest system/driver updates from Internet. It worked me few times.

There's a network manager called wicd, did you try it? And check linuxwireless out, you can find the other managers and lots of information about wireless.

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  • Yes, this is what I'm gonna do. I'll post the results later.
    – Randell
    Oct 11, 2009 at 23:31
  • The update didn't solve the problem.
    – Randell
    Oct 12, 2009 at 4:59
  • try wicd too, one of my notebooks works only with it.
    – buba
    Oct 12, 2009 at 16:11
  • @buba, what's the model of your notebook the works with wicd?
    – Randell
    Oct 13, 2009 at 10:19
  • hp pavilion dv5000 with amd sempron, it has ubuntu 8.10; i haven't tried with newer versions of ubuntu.
    – buba
    Oct 13, 2009 at 21:54
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I finally made it work! I followed @emgee's lead and used lspci. Executing lspci on my terminal showed this line along with several other lines:

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

Googling BCM4312 lead me to Broadcom Linux STA Driver. As stated in the intro:

These packages contain Broadcom's IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux® device driver for use with Broadcom's BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4321-, and BCM4322-based hardware. However, this driver is known to support other chipsets labelled differently (such as the BCM4328.)

And then it was as simple as executing the following:

Install the broadcom-wl packages

yum install broadcom-wl

Loading the driver

modprobe wl

and restarting my machine.

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    Special thanks to @buba for following my progress.
    – Randell
    Oct 19, 2009 at 8:14
  • Congratulations, I'm glad for you :)
    – buba
    Oct 19, 2009 at 18:10
  • Do you know if I could do that in Ubuntu? Or what the commands would be? Mar 2, 2010 at 15:54

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