wifi
 

not able to get my wifi working with mandriva 2010, using lenovo netbook S10e ideapad
[root@localhost ~]# lspcidrake -v | grep -i wireless
btusb : Broadcom Corp|BCM2046 Bluetooth Device [Wireless|Radio Frequency|Bluetooth] (vendor:0a5c device:2150)
[root@localhost ~]# service network restart
Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.31.13-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Apr 27 21:14:13 EDT 2010 i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GNU/Linux

Seems like a lot have your troubles.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ez/+bug/548720

But some have a version that works some of the time.

dupe

not able to open the link.... should i remove the OS and apply another one such as fedora or ubuntu

google on BCM2046 and linux. But the short QA is Q: has anyone gotten this card to work? A: yes. So perhaps you can too. That particular bug report which works on my system says that it broke during an ubuntu upgrade. Since there's a version after that one now, perhaps it's fixed again in that version. So sure, give another distro a try. What's the worst that can happen? All of your devices start to work?