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Hi All, I Am using a HP dv5 1104 TU laptop which came with windows Vista. I have installed Fedora 9 in a separate partition. Could anybody help me in ...
  1. 02-19-2009 #1
    krajkum
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    Fedora 9 - Realtec Ethernet card and Wireless NIC

    Hi All,

    I Am using a HP dv5 1104 TU laptop which came with windows Vista. I have installed Fedora 9 in a separate partition. Could anybody help me in installing the drivers for Wireless NIC and Realteck LAN card?
    Even My Sound card is not detected automatically

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    The wireless card has been supported since Fedora 2 or 3, but you need to take the proprietary firmware for the wireless chipset from the windows driver. Fedora supplies a tool to let you do this, it's called (I think) 'bcmwl-fwcutter', to find it you can do 'yum list available|grep cutter' and it should show up.

    Run this over the drivers and and put the resulting files into your system firmware directory, probably /usr/lib/firmware, but it might have moved - it's been a while since I needed to do this.
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