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Nemesissparadise 04-19-2008 08:25 PM

linksys wireless card not working in Fedora 8
 
I was running Fedora 7 and was using a linksys wireless card (wmp54gs version 1) and it worked great then i moved to Fedora 8 and it is no longer recognized also its a pci card and xp recognizes and uses it even as we speak o and im running 64 bit version of Fedora don't know if that matters :)

reddazz 04-21-2008 05:12 AM

Hi. What is the output of running
Code:

/sbin/lspci | grep -i net

Nemesissparadise 04-22-2008 01:10 AM

output data
 
Sorry it took me so long to reply my Dvd Burner wasn't burning in Linux but no worries i fixed it :)

[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:08.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 71c1 (rev 9e)
05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 71e1 (rev 9e)
[root@localhost ~]#

reddazz 04-22-2008 05:12 AM

Take a look here and here for possible solutions.

Nemesissparadise 04-22-2008 10:10 PM

ok thanks i downloaded ndiswrapper and my drivers but this will expose just how much of a newbe i am :D but i run the terminal and type yum localinstall /root/ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz' and it tells me that no such file exist and immiediatly tries to download it but of course no internet until i get tis if i do

reddazz 04-25-2008 11:13 PM

You don't use YUM to install source tarballs. To install ndiswrapper, try
Code:

#yum install ndiswrapper


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