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?
2 Answers
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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hp pavilion dv5000 with amd sempron, it has ubuntu 8.10; i haven't tried with newer versions of ubuntu.– bubaOct 13, 2009 at 21:54
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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Do you know if I could do that in Ubuntu? Or what the commands would be? Mar 2, 2010 at 15:54
dmesg
?