On Thursday 10 February 2011 16:04:43 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 08 February 2011 15:26:33 Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Thanks. That's too old, but it got me on the right lines, giving me > > > some clues of things to search for. I started with "yum search > > > broadcom", then installed b43* (some of which were already installed), > > > broadcom-wl and kmod- wl. > > > > Uh, it's either the b43 stuff or the broadcom-wl stuff, they're 2 > > different drivers for Broadcom wireless hardware. > > A great deal more digging, reading and experimenting got me no further. > Eventually I ended up on IRC at #bcm-users where I was told that I probably > need the brcm80211 driver. Basically, the advice was that I might have to > install compat-wireless or build the kernel from staging to include it, but > I see in an OpenSUSE forum topic that the driver is in the 2.6.37 kernel. > > Do you know if this is in the pipeline for F14? If it's in Rawhide will it > be installable in F14, or do I have to wait for F15 (or a late beta > thereof)? > Information from so many sources, and all conflicting :-( So, now I have a working wireless connection. For those with the same problem, here is the solution: http://fedoraunity.org/mobile/fc-wireless/broadcom-linux-sta-driver I used the "Using the akmod Rather then (sic) the kmod" section. Once I realised that my kernel-devel package was the wrong one, everything went beautifully smoothly for the install and activation. However, I use WPA, and I hit the problem of being repeatedly asked for the passphrase. I knew I had only a weak signal, so I took the netbook to a place where it would get a good signal, and lo and behold! a working wireless! Many thanks to gabriello who patiently talked me through, helping me interpret system messages, in a long IRC session. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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