On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:44 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote:
On 23/06/09 22:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been
> able to get WiFi to come up on at all.
>
> Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a
> Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the
> other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter.
Despite that fact that Broadcom are arseholes when it comes to Linux
I've found the adaptors work pretty damn well, thanks to the guys who've
meticulously worked to provide the kernel drives. I would guess that
you're missing the required firmware? It isn't distributed with Fedora
for legal reasons. Have a look here, particularly the section about
firmware installation:
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you
try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled.
Thanks!
This worked like a champ. On both machines.
Just for clarification on F11, the _only_ thing that is missing is the
firmware. The b43-fwcutter version that comes with F11 works on the
firmware packages. There is no need to install it again. Also, the
firmware directory on F11 is /lib/firmware - the default location for
most distros.
All I needed to to was to download the correct firmware package and
extract per the instructions above, and voila!
Cheers,
Chris
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