Hp pavilion zd8000 and wireless

shadowers · 04-21-2009, 11:26 PM

Hi, I have a HP Pavilion zd8000 I am working on for a friend. My issue is I cannot connect to any wireless networks. I am using Fedora 10 and have replaced the NIC after concluding the old one was bad(which I am now reconsidering). The drivers are installed and the NIC is recognized in Linux. Any help?

farslayer · 04-22-2009, 07:30 AM

what wireless nic is it ? it may just need firmware loaded.
please post the output from lspci, lspcmcia or lsusb, depending on the type of wireless NIC..

shadowers · 04-23-2009, 04:33 PM

Ok, I got it...

The problem was the bios of all things. Although the bios clearly said wireless was ENABLED, it was accually disabled so I reflashed the bios and all was well in the windows world. I then put Fedora back on used ndiswrapper and its all cool now.