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Old 02-02-2010, 06:16 AM   #1
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Question Need wifi drivers for fedora!!!!


please somebody help me gimme any link, code, any thing will work.

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Old 02-02-2010, 06:20 AM   #2
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Hya,

What kind of hardware?
 
Old 02-02-2010, 06:24 AM   #3
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If you want to advertise here, please see the links at the bottom of the page.

If your question is real:

You want a wifi driver for your wireless card. Once you have the driver, it will work with any Linux. To help you, we would need to know what the card is.
 
Old 02-02-2010, 06:34 AM   #4
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i really need the drivers n i don kno wat type of card it is
i can tell u that my laptop is dell studio 15.And sorry abt the link i didn't kno there were such strong rules.
 
Old 02-02-2010, 06:44 AM   #5
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anup;

Please do not use texting shorthand here---spell out your words.

The link was removed because it appeared to be advertising that was unrelated to your question. After you have been here for a while, you'll see what kinds of things are generally allowed.

Here are the specs for your laptop: (found using Google)
http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/noteb...55&cs=19&s=dhs

Have you checked for drivers using the Fedora package manager? e.g.: just do a search on "Dell". Also, copy the exact words from the spec, add "linux drivers", and search on Google
 
Old 02-02-2010, 07:06 AM   #6
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You can doublecheck the card type by issuing: /sbin/lspci on the command line.
 
Old 02-06-2010, 06:52 PM   #7
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You can doublecheck the card type by issuing: /sbin/lspci on the command line.


I checked the hardware n the card is "Dell Wireless 1397 802.11g Half Mini-Card" can somebody please tell me how to get drivers for this.
 
Old 02-06-2010, 07:07 PM   #8
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Can you post the output of /sbin/lspci (the line about wireless)? Google shows it'll be broadcom, let's see exactly which one.
Can you also post the output of ifconfig and iwconfig?
 
Old 02-06-2010, 07:35 PM   #9
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output of /sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobilitiy Radeon HD 3400 Series
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4232
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
09:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
09:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
09:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
09:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
 
Old 02-06-2010, 07:39 PM   #10
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iwconfg :-



iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

virbr0 no wireless extensions.
 
Old 02-06-2010, 07:41 PM   #11
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ifconfig


ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:70:89:0A:FA
inet addr:192.168.1.33 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:70ff:fe89:afa/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2886 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2482080 (2.3 MiB) TX bytes:636747 (621.8 KiB)
Interrupt:17

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4408 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4408 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:220560 (215.3 KiB) TX bytes:220560 (215.3 KiB)

virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0A:97:C5:0D:E4:62
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::897:c5ff:fe0d:e462/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5066 (4.9 KiB)
 
Old 02-06-2010, 08:17 PM   #12
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It seems that it's got an Intel wifi card.
Code:
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4232
There are some relatively recent posts on the internet suggesting downloading firmware / recompiling the kernel to enable support for that card. Which kernel are you using (output of 'uname -r')?

Perhaps, someone has a more up-to-date info on the inclusion of (iwlwifi-5000-ucode?) in a Fedora kernel.

As the last resort, you could probably install a windows wifi driver for this laptop using ndiswrapper.
 
  


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