I am a new student to linux using fedora 8 and could use some help, trying to connest to internet,
Ran lspci command and came u with

[SIZE="1"]00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02) 02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20) 02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20) 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 02) [

Any suggestions?

Don

You could do two different things... look into using ndiswrapper. It basically takes the Windows driver for your card and allows you to use it in Linux. Most of the time it works, there are small times where it doesn't.

Alternately, you could upgrade to Fedora 9. As newer versions come out, support gets better. In a little over a month, Fedora 10 is coming out.

ok, you were a bit unclear about your actual problem. please describe your problem in greater detail.

what i got out of lspci is that your network card is a broadcom BCM4309, right? fedora 8 no longer comes with broadcom driver, so you will have to get it from http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

broadcom is a hard card to get working sometimes, if this gives you trouble, you can try ndiswrapper, but forget about that until you can't get the native driver working.