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thebiggiantmouse 06-28-2006 12:42 AM
problem with wireless adapter with dell laptop
 
Hey here is the problem i am. I bought a dell XPS and just installed fedora core 5. I have cable access to the internet but it doesn't seem to recognize my wireless modem. does anyone have any answers or is there a previous thread i can look at

x86processor 06-28-2006 02:26 PM
Is it detected? Open a terminal and post output of:
Code:
/sbin/ifconfig -a
/sbin/iwconfig -a
/sbin/lsmod
Note, you can redirect output to a file:
Code:
/sbin/ifconfig -a > ifconfig.txt

thebiggiantmouse 06-29-2006 09:29 AM
thanx for the tip. i tried and it seems the system is not recognizing my wireless modem at all..

Ha1f 06-29-2006 10:06 AM
do you happen to know what kind of wifi card is?

thebiggiantmouse 06-29-2006 11:18 AM
yes it is a dell wireless 1350 wlan mini pci card

Nylex 06-29-2006 11:21 AM
What kind of chipset has it got? Run lspci (or /sbin/lspci) and post the output here.

onebuck 06-29-2006 05:00 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by thebiggiantmouse
thanx for the tip. i tried and it seems the system is not recognizing my wireless modem at all..
Hi,

How about posting the output of the requested commands that you piped to a text file?

kak 06-29-2006 05:18 PM
From:http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List
Quote:
Card: Dell Truemobile 1350 minipci 54mbps
Chipset: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03)
pciid: 14e4:4320
Driver: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R81433.EXE (use bcmwl5a.inf in directory AR)
Other: So far, so good. WEP appears to work fine, as does WPA with CCMP/AES.
You will need to download ndiswrapper and follw the directions; both found here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

There appears to be no native support for that particular chipset.

thebiggiantmouse 06-30-2006 02:26 PM
ok wireless seems to be running fine now thanx kak

thebiggiantmouse 06-30-2006 02:29 PM
gwsandvik my guess is you are using slackware. I was interested in learning this distribution because from what i have it is the most difficult to learn. I tried downloading from the mirrors on this site but i ran into problems do you know where i can find a better place to get this

Nylex 06-30-2006 10:36 PM
What kind of problems did you have downloading Slackware??

thebiggiantmouse 07-02-2006 09:23 PM
it downloads fine i think the problems comes when i try to burn the iso images to a cd/dvd

Nylex 07-02-2006 10:53 PM
Did you check the MD5 sums after downloading? How are you trying to burn the images?

stevie_velvet 07-03-2006 02:16 AM
I have FC5 & XP...and Solaris 10 ~ i hav't installed the wifi ~ its a Intel 3945 ~ let you know what happens

Nylex 07-03-2006 03:00 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by stevie_velvet
I have FC5 & XP...and Solaris 10 ~ i hav't installed the wifi ~ its a Intel 3945 ~ let you know what happens
Just so you know, Intel have drivers for these cards for Linux. You can get them here.


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