I am probably asking on the wrong listserve, but this is the only one I subscribe to.
I have never used wi-fi in Fedora. I have normally had access to a Ethernet and all my previous attempts at wi-fi in Fedora have failed.
So today, I purchased a router, and connected it to my cable-modem and was able to immediately use wi-fi on my $ 30 Android smartphone.
But I can not for the life of me, figure out how to get wi-fi to work in Fedora. I believe I have third party repo properly installed. I believe I have Broadcom-wl and kmod-wl installed.
I am in Xfce, which in my opinion has poor Network Manager menu compared to Gnome.
I have used wi-fi on other distros before and my recollection was that it was not complicated.
When I click on the Network icon in the panel, it does not show wi-fi.
If I go to the Xfce menu to "Advanced Network Configuration," I get a menu that is above my IQ.
David Locklear
Hi David, you likely need akmod-wl as well as well as kernel development headers
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 5:05 PM David dlocklear01@gmail.com wrote:
I am probably asking on the wrong listserve, but this is the only one I subscribe to.
I have never used wi-fi in Fedora. I have normally had access to a Ethernet and all my previous attempts at wi-fi in Fedora have failed.
So today, I purchased a router, and connected it to my cable-modem and was able to immediately use wi-fi on my $ 30 Android smartphone.
But I can not for the life of me, figure out how to get wi-fi to work in Fedora. I believe I have third party repo properly installed. I believe I have Broadcom-wl and kmod-wl installed.
I am in Xfce, which in my opinion has poor Network Manager menu compared to Gnome.
I have used wi-fi on other distros before and my recollection was that it was not complicated.
When I click on the Network icon in the panel, it does not show wi-fi.
If I go to the Xfce menu to "Advanced Network Configuration," I get a menu that is above my IQ.
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Thank you.
I have akmod-wl and wpa_supplicant and broadcomm-wl and kernel-header and kernel-modulues and kernel-devel, kernel-core, kernel-modules-extras, and both free and non-free of the unofficial third-party repo.
My recollection was, that there was a well-known developer who had a hack or something that you could download - something like dcarati ?? I think I did that once last year in another install of Fedora 29 or 30, and it worked, as far as getting the wi-fi device recognized
Somewhere around the house, I have a USB wi-fi dongle, but the reason I do not have it readily available is that I once tried it and it didn't work either.
I will say that when I was in Rawhide Gnome a few weeks ago, that my wi-fi was recognized ( enabled ?? ), but it would not connect. This Rawhide Xfce install is new and I have never installed all the stuff one needs to get wi-fi recognized ( or enabled ?? ). Meaning, the Network icon in the panel only shows Ethernet.
David Locklear
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 5:16 PM Zachary Snyder sadin@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi David, you likely need akmod-wl as well as well as kernel development headers
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 5:05 PM David dlocklear01@gmail.com wrote:
I am probably asking on the wrong listserve, but this is the only one I subscribe to.
I have never used wi-fi in Fedora. I have normally had access to a Ethernet and all my previous attempts at wi-fi in Fedora have failed.
So today, I purchased a router, and connected it to my cable-modem and was able to immediately use wi-fi on my $ 30 Android smartphone.
But I can not for the life of me, figure out how to get wi-fi to work in Fedora. I believe I have third party repo properly installed. I believe I have Broadcom-wl and kmod-wl installed.
I am in Xfce, which in my opinion has poor Network Manager menu compared to Gnome.
I have used wi-fi on other distros before and my recollection was that it was not complicated.
When I click on the Network icon in the panel, it does not show wi-fi.
If I go to the Xfce menu to "Advanced Network Configuration," I get a menu that is above my IQ.
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On 3/7/20 1:57 PM, David wrote:
I am probably asking on the wrong listserve, but this is the only one I subscribe to.
The "users" mailing list would be a much better place for getting help with this kind of question.
But I can not for the life of me, figure out how to get wi-fi to work in Fedora. I believe I have third party repo properly installed. I believe I have Broadcom-wl and kmod-wl installed.
If you do require that driver, then you're already in a more difficult situation.
When I click on the Network icon in the panel, it does not show wi-fi.
That indicates that the driver is not loaded or the device is not recognized.
I recommend that you send this question to the users@lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list instead (you'll probably have to subscribe first). Include the following information: desktop or laptop computer? device info from the "lspci" command "lsmod | grep wl" "rpm -q kernel kmod-wl"
On 2020-03-08 06:19, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 3/7/20 1:57 PM, David wrote:
I am probably asking on the wrong listserve, but this is the only one I subscribe to.
The "users" mailing list would be a much better place for getting help with this kind of question.
But, if memory serves me, David is running "rawhide". So, he may well be getting ahead of the curve.
On 3/7/20 3:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 2020-03-08 06:19, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 3/7/20 1:57 PM, David wrote:
I am probably asking on the wrong listserve, but this is the only one I subscribe to.
The "users" mailing list would be a much better place for getting help with this kind of question.
But, if memory serves me, David is running "rawhide". So, he may well be getting ahead of the curve.
Good point, I didn't connect the dots. Thank you. Still, he would probably get more help from the users list anyway for something like this.
On 2020-03-08 08:45, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 3/7/20 3:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 2020-03-08 06:19, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 3/7/20 1:57 PM, David wrote:
I am probably asking on the wrong listserve, but this is the only one I subscribe to.
The "users" mailing list would be a much better place for getting help with this kind of question.
But, if memory serves me, David is running "rawhide". So, he may well be getting ahead of the curve.
Good point, I didn't connect the dots. Thank you. Still, he would probably get more help from the users list anyway for something like this.
Well, except that poc will redirect him to the test list when he learns he is running rawhide. :-) :-)