Wireless and webcam problem in Fedora 10

magk · 03-01-2010, 07:01 AM

Hi
I installed Fedora 10 few days back in my laptop (dell inspiron15) and i had problems with wireless connection and webcam.

I have a WLAN (UTSTARCOM)

Had no problems connecting to net using lan cable.But wireless was a problem.I tried changing the settings in the Network Connection window using the settings wit my ISP. Still no luck.

And with my webcam like i updated wit "yum update". and i got some software application named "digikam" but tat did not detect either my lap webcam or the usb (logitech) webcam that i had.

Sorry that i could not give more details about Wireless Driver.
I also would request to know the command that i should use to actually know what driver is in my laptop and also for the video driver.

Requesting suggestions from you frnds

thank you in advance

reed9 · 03-01-2010, 09:01 AM

Please post the output of

Code:

/sbin/lspci -vnn
/sbin/lsusb
lsmod

Have your USB webcam plugged in.

magk · 03-02-2010, 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reed9

Please post the output of

Code:

/sbin/lspci -vnn
/sbin/lsusb
lsmod

Have your USB webcam plugged in.

Thank You for ur suggestions. I updated with yum update and got another "cheese webcam booth" which works with both usb webcam and laptop cam.

Actually dont know what exactly was the problem with digikam.

But Wireless problem is still not solved. Would appreciate if u can suggest any solutions for getting wireless work.

Thank You.

reed9 · 03-02-2010, 05:46 AM

Quote:

But Wireless problem is still not solved. Would appreciate if u can suggest any solutions for getting wireless work.

We need more information. Please post the output to the commands in my first post. Minus lsusb if the webcam thing is sorted.

magk · 03-09-2010, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reed9

We need more information. Please post the output to the commands in my first post. Minus lsusb if the webcam thing is sorted.

hello reed9,
These are the things that i got for the commands that u gave.
just specified the wifi info that i got from that command.

Code:

/sbin/lspci -vnn
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4
	Memory at f69fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

for lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   49436  10 
i915                   53764  2 
drm                   158644  3 i915
ipt_MASQUERADE          6528  1 
iptable_nat             8712  1 
nf_nat                 17944  2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
sco                    12932  2 
bridge                 43796  0 
stp                     6148  1 bridge
bnep                   14848  2 
l2cap                  21504  3 bnep
bluetooth              48736  5 sco,bnep,l2cap
sunrpc                156436  3 
ip6t_REJECT             7296  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6      15864  2 
ip6table_filter         6400  1 
ip6_tables             14736  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6                  230388  24 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
cpufreq_ondemand        9996  2 
acpi_cpufreq           12172  0 
dm_multipath           17292  0 
uinput                 10624  0 
snd_hda_intel         354324  3 
snd_seq_dummy           6660  0 
snd_seq_oss            30364  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      9600  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                48576  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         10124  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            42624  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16896  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                65924  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
uvcvideo               51848  0 
snd_timer              22024  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11144  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep              10628  1 snd_hda_intel
i2c_i801               12048  0 
snd                    50616  16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
compat_ioctl32          5120  1 uvcvideo
sky2                   43012  0 
usb_storage            86792  1 
videodev               32000  1 uvcvideo
i2c_core               21396  2 drm,i2c_i801
v4l1_compat            15876  2 uvcvideo,videodev
video                  20628  0 
output                  6528  1 video
dcdbas                 10276  0 
pcspkr                  6272  0 
soundcore               9416  1 snd
serio_raw               8836  0 
joydev                 12736  0 
wmi                     9768  0

Thanking you.

jamescondron · 03-09-2010, 08:13 AM

Consider an upgrade, Fedora 10 is about 18months old, we're on 12 now, with 13 on it's way. You may find these problems have long since been fixed; I am using the same hardware successfully to post this now

reed9 · 03-09-2010, 08:50 AM

For your wireless card, there are two drivers, the opensource b43 (which requires non-free firmware) or the proprietary Broadcom wl driver. The b43 only began supporting this card recently, as of kernel 2.6.32, so you'll probably need the wl driver.

This guide is for Fedora 11, but it should be exactly the same process.
http://www.cenolan.com/2009/06/insta...-in-fedora-11/

Or here is another guide, a little more in depth.
http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/...nux-sta-driver

magk · 03-15-2010, 12:33 AM

Thank you reed9
I followed the link u gave and installed akmod-wl package and got wireless working. And i was able to access websites but then today when i tried to access my wireless it says connected and have 100% connection but then could not access any webpages.Dunno what actually is the problem. Can you suggest anything to configure wireless in fedora.

magk · 03-15-2010, 03:00 AM

Thank You reed9
Got Wireless working.