It seems my Broadcom wireless card isn’t detected properly in my Dell Studio 1737 on a default Fedora 10 install. Damn, but all is not bad news. Bring on RPM Fusion, a simple
su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm’
and a
yum install broadcom-wl fixes it all….awsome
Now if only they would fix the bug in the kernel/pulseaudio/snd-intel so i could hear sound on it, that would be fab…..Bug 477954
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knowing exactly which broadcom chipset you have would really be helpful.
/sbin/lspci will answer that question.
Ben
Southern_Gentlem #fedora
Hi Ben
Here it is [i'm running ubuntu to get it though]
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
No joy… Apparently the package is not on the repo… “No package broadcom-wl available.”
Strange, see if this helps? LINK
i searched for hours for a solution even hit up freenode in #bcm-users and #fedora and no luck. just did what you had posted and my wifi light is still not on. going to reboot to make sure though.
Once again I’m disappointed. I have a broadcom 4311 and aside from this i’ve tried fwcutter and ndiswrapper. I’m going to walmart now to get a wifi card or something.
I have a Belkin wireless card (Atheros Chip #2413?), it has worked out of the box reliably on Ubuntu since 7.10- and it could be coaxed into working on 7.04 if I simply placed it inside the pcmcia slot during install in the presence of a wireless network.
Ubuntu has slowed down recently on my P3 hardware- and I’d like to try Fedora, however I just don’t understand why a distro as advanced and cutting edge as this one can’t do what ubuntu has done since ubuntu 7.04!?!?!
Come on guys- when can I install fedora on my hardware with this wifi card and have it working out of the box? I’m even willing to upgrade this old ibm R31 for the priveledge!
P.S. This post isn’t a troll- just a plea from a guy wishing for things he ain’t got….
I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 I did the same with my wireless card and is working I can detect my wiresless network but I can’t connect I am using WEP, I don’t know why it is not taking the key, all other computer in my house work fine, excetp the one with fedora, does anybody can help me?