On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 23/06/09 22:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been > > able to get WiFi to come up on at all. > > > > Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a > > Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the > > other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter. > > Despite that fact that Broadcom are arseholes when it comes to Linux > I've found the adaptors work pretty damn well, thanks to the guys who've > meticulously worked to provide the kernel drives. I would guess that > you're missing the required firmware? It isn't distributed with Fedora > for legal reasons. Have a look here, particularly the section about > firmware installation: > > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > > This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you > try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled. Thanks! This worked like a champ. On both machines. Just for clarification on F11, the _only_ thing that is missing is the firmware. The b43-fwcutter version that comes with F11 works on the firmware packages. There is no need to install it again. Also, the firmware directory on F11 is /lib/firmware - the default location for most distros. All I needed to to was to download the correct firmware package and extract per the instructions above, and voila! Cheers, Chris -- ============================= "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
