Dell Inspiron 1150 Wireless NIC FC4 woes

Skarekroh · 09-06-2005, 08:30 PM

On the Windows side, card detects as a Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI card. Believe it's a Broadcomm chipset. PCI Bus 2, device 2, function 0. Works properly. FC4 won't detect it. Anyone had experience with this model laptop/wireless card in FC4?

TIA,

Kroh

bejiita · 09-07-2005, 08:35 AM

yeah dood, I have a Lat 110L. It uses a similar card. use ndiswrapper(very easy to install) you need to grab two windows files bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys and youll be all set, you lose some functionality for the card, but its stuff you dont need

Skarekroh · 09-07-2005, 02:03 PM

Eureka! Problem was that I had forgotten the bcmwl5.sys file. Works fine with a static IP. Now, I just need to sort out DHCP, which I think is my router's problem, and nothing I can't handle. Thanks a bunch.

Kroh

bejiita · 09-07-2005, 02:13 PM

first test w/o any encryption (wep/wpa)

then dhcpcd wlan0

Skarekroh · 09-08-2005, 01:53 AM

well, dangit, I got the dhcp working, then I had to go and blow it by running a 'yum -y update' which upgraded my kernel. Now it can't find wlan0, despite having re-'make install'ed ndiswrapper with the appropriate windows driver. Back to square 1.

bejiita · 09-08-2005, 08:14 AM

doh, is there a way you can exclude kernels from updates, if not wash - rinse - repeat LOL