I have read atleast hundred issues relating to the same laptop and the same wifi card.. yet i got no solution..

my OS is Fedora 12 (Electronics Laboratory Live CD)

Wifi card is Broadcom 802.11g (4312)

I had previously installed ubuntu on my laptop. This Broadcom STA Driver seemed to be the solution. It was a restricted driver. once i installed and enabled it, my wifi was all set...

first thing is that, my yum install broadcom-wl didnt work. it said no package available even after updating the sources completely...

thus i copied the .deb file pertaining to the broadcom-sta-driver FROM MY UBUNTU LIVE CD and converted it to rpm (since i couldn't download a proper rpm package)...

i installed it...

wifi still not working!!!!!

PLEASE HELP!!!

satyaki
LINUX IS COOL!!!

Hello and welcome to LinuxQuestions,

Just today I was helping someone with the same wireless card as you have, but she's using Ubuntu. Seems that particular NIC is causing problems all around. I'm not familiar with Fedora 12 but I imagine that you can apply a similar procedure. I've heard of lots of problems with the BCM4312 and seems like using NDISwrapper is one of the favorite solutions. So, have a look at this thread to get some ideas (there's even a post in there by pixellany which refers to Fedora having the Broadcom Drivers available). Hope you get it working soon.

Kind regards,

Eric

I have already tried!!! i'm almost fed up!!! Please Show light!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Copying a .deb to an .rpm is almost certainly not going to work for a kernel module like the sta driver. Instead, download the appropriate source file from Broadcom and compile it according to the README file. Hopefully that will get you going.

i even tried that... i extracted the files.. i did that make thing.. etc, etc.....

thats not just copying a .deb to a .rpm i converted it using alien

And what happened? Some details would be nice, things like error messages, log entries, that sort of stuff. Sorry, but "it doesn't work" really isn't good enough to solve the problem. We really need details.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. Kernel modules (which sta is) must be compiled against the running kernel. So even if you successfully converted the .deb to a .rpm, odds are it wouldn't work because the underlying driver was compiled against a Debian kernel that is almost certainly different from the Fedora kernel that you're running. Unlike the Windows world where there is never more than one kernel version, Linux has many, many kernel versions. This is also why I suggested compiling from source.

I have the Broadcom 43xx card in my laptop.

I just went with NDISwrapper, very easy and hasn't broken once yet (slackware). Plus, it's well documented (as per EricTRA's link). I highly recommend it- there is probably a ndiswrapper packages in your repos, and then just read the manpage and follow instructions to load the correct driver.

I know at least with my kernel, you actually need to use "b43-fwcutter" on, I believe, a Windows driver in order to use the b43 kernel module. I have no experience with this.

You have to add the rpmfusion repository in order to use that driver. Fedora doesn't use proprietary drivers in its official repositories.

If you have an active internet connection (such as plugged in with an Ethernet cable), enabling them is easy. Just issue the following:
If you don't have an active internet connection, you'll have to download these three files. Once you have your internet working, you can then add those rpmfusion rpms.
kmod-wl
kmod-wl-<your kernel version>
broadcom-wl

These can be found here: (make sure you're using the right architecture!)

http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/rpmfusion...thing/i386/os/

I added that particular repository...

i dunno if its added properly and if my laptop updates the recent packages from that repo.. pl. temme how i should check that...

and it says "No package kmod-wl found"
"No Package broadcom-wl found"

even after i added the repo. thats why i doubt if its added properly.

I dont want to use that b43 or b43-cutter thing. in ubuntu it works with just the "Broadcom STA Driver" from the hardware drivers...

Just gimme a link or a proper procedure to download the Broadcom STA driver... that should fix everything!!!

Thanks a lot to everyone replying to this post!!!
I owe u a lot!!!

LINUX ROCKS!!!!

I do have an rpm package of Broadcom wireless.. but i dunno if it matches my kernel.. and also that it ask for hell lotta dependencies!!!

WHy is it not asking me if it should search for the dependencies from the internet!!!!!?!!?!?!???? (this is where i feel windows is more friendlier)

THANKS TO ALL OF U FOR RESPONDING!!!

no need of all the b43, b43-cutter and stuff!!!

the repo had not got installed properly...
i had a few problems with my fedora12 kerel.. i had to use that intel_iommu=off thing... so i reverted back to a basic fedora 11.. now i updated my packagelists and istalled my broadcom-wl and kmod-wl... a WiFi is now WORKING FINE!!!

Linux is best!!!