Re: Not able to connect to wifi in Fedora 14

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On Friday 11 February 2011 13:59:30 Jim wrote:
> On 02/11/2011 02:52 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 11 February 2011 07:34:50 Rohit Farmer wrote:
> >> I have just bought Dell Inspiron M501R AMD Phenom Quad Core, which was
> >> bundled with windows7 where all the features are working fine. I then
> >> installed Fedora 14 64 bit on a partition and now i am not able to
> >> connect to wifi.
> >> 
> >> I used the command  lspci -vnn and at the end it shows the following,
> >> does this output means the drivers of the wlan card is not installed.
> >> 
> >> 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313
> >> 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
> > 
> > This is the same device as on my netbook.  I have been told that it will
> > not work with the b43 driver.  I have been promised some help this
> > morning on IRC, and I'll report back if I get it to work.
> > 
> > Anne
> 
> Use the kmod-wl and remove b43-cutter rpm .

That was the solution.  For others with this need, go to 
http://fedoraunity.org/mobile/fc-wireless/broadcom-linux-sta-driver for 
instructions.  I used the akmod method, incredibly smooth.

Anne
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