Wireless Doesn't Seem To Work On Fedora Core (Unsurprisingly)

DPSellyChan · 10-24-2006, 08:01 PM

Okay, here's what I've got:

A few days ago, my parents bought me a new laptop (Acer Aspire 3004WLMi) for my birthday. I installed Fedora Core 5 on it along with the default Windows setup, but can't seem to get the wireless working. The particular wireless card I have is reported as being compatible with ndiswrapper, and I was able to install the driver through it. However, I can't seem to make the jump from installing through ndiswrapper to getting the hardware recognized. I'm not sure what steps to take.

Anyway, the card is listed as a Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 51g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller. It works perfectly with Windows.

johnson_steve · 10-24-2006, 11:50 PM

I don't know about ndiswraper but my BCM4306 works great with the kernel's bcm43xx driver. I don't know if fedora's kernel suports it out of the box but you could check:

Code:

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep BCM43XX

doublejoon · 11-15-2006, 12:34 PM

I have the Aspire 3005WLCI....I had to use ndiswrapper for FC6 also. works great with NetworkManager!

doublejoon · 11-15-2006, 01:21 PM

I have the Aspire 3005WLCI....I had to use ndiswrapper for FC6 also. works great with NetworkManager!

PTrenholme · 11-15-2006, 01:50 PM

If you install the NetworkManager packages (e.g., do a yum install NetworkManager*), then activate the GNOME Network Manager Applet or (if you use KDE), install the knetworkmanager, you should be "golden."

Note, however, that access to WPA or WPA2 protected networks will require that you also install wpa_supplicant.

Oh, if your Linux connection isn't (yet) working, you can download the rpms from the repositories by hand (to a FAT partition or USB drive), and then install the rpms from there.