I recently acquired a HP D530 notebook pc and installed on it Fedora core 8. Unfortunately, the WLAN is not detected. I do not know the hardware device name and model. Can anyone help me to get it working. Thank you in advance and have a thoughtful day

Posting the info would help. Also posting the portion on the network card from the output ' /sbin/lspci -v ' will help others to help you see the best module of choice for your network nic card.

Brian

The output is as shown below
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 27ac (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 27ae (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at 3000 [size=8]
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f0480000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f0500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0580000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=10, subordinate=10, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: f0000000-f00fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 3020 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at f0584000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=06, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: f0100000-f03fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000020000000-0000000023ffffff
Capabilities: [50] Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 3040 [size=16]
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2

02:06.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 18
Memory at f0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 20000000-23fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 24000000-27fff000
I/O window 0: 00002400-000024ff
I/O window 1: 00002800-000028ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30d5
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at f0101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

10:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1363
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0

It is the Broadcom one. Not used that chipset before so not sure if b43 module will work with it. I would google the chipset with linux as a search option to see what you find. If no kernel module then look into ndiswrapper and using the windows inf driver with it. Many post on installing and setting up ndiswrapper here and many distro specific.

Brian

There is a built in driver for broadcom wlan on fedora core 8 but it can't work on the Broadcom card i have. I can't even get the MAC address. On trying to activate it, it gives the response "tg3 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.". Let me try out ndiswrapper website and thank you.