Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Are you able to follow these instructions?
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-January/428974.html
I wondered if the problem is that the RPMfusion broadcom-wl is not up
to date.
I believe that the opposite is true, the kernel in the Live-CD is so old that
the matching drivers are no longer readily found on rpmfusion. The current
packages match a kernel newer than the one on the Live-CD or install DVD.
Thanks for the link, unfortunately installing thing not in the distro requires
downloading the packages. It's Catch-22, if I had network connectivity I could
download the things I need to get network connectivity. But then I wouldn't need
to...
I can download to external media, but that gets ugly, complex, and vastly
time-consuming. Install a package, find out what else it needs, repeat indefinitely.
Again, thanks for the help.
Ranjan
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:01:33 -0500 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
I'm trying to update a laptop to FC18, but that does not seem to be an option,
because the Broadcom WiFi is still not supported. It seems that the obvious
solutions are not practical, since both the Live-CD and Install kernels use
kernels for which rpmfusion has no driver software due to their age.
I suppose I could grab another laptop, connect to the net, set up routing,
connect the laptops by cable, but that's a real hack. I could also install MINT,
since their religious beliefs do not prohibit using freely provided vendor
drivers, but I really prefer Fedora.
I could provide a USB WiFi adapter which is recognized, only none of the three I
have is detected by the kernels provided, even though they all worked on the
FC16 gen laptops I was using a year ago or so.
I could build my own kernel, but I have never mastered the secure boot sign your
own UEFI, and I could run FC18 under KVM, but that doesn't provide the newer
security features, just the newer apps, which is not the issue.
Suggestions?
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