How to enable WI-FI? (Fedora 12 - Dell Inspiron 1545)

[nelo]

Hi,

I'm trying to enable WI-FI but the system doesn't recognizes it

Can you help me?

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card
	Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
	Kernel modules: ssb

Thanks

[Mudgen]

Install the rpmfusion-nonfree repo, Google for it, I still can't post URLs

Then the Broadcomm driver:
su -
yum install broadcom-wl

This will also pull in the kmod-wl package to keep it updated with your kernel.

[reed9]

As the above poster said. This thread has the links.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...ess-setup.html

[nelo]

Thank you, worked 100%

Before I blacklisted the b43 driver:

echo "blacklist b43" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

[Mudgen]

Thanks, Reed9, for the post fodder to get my 15th so I can post URLs. The other thread calls for just kmod-wl, which can require blacklist dinking around. The broadcom-wl includes an appropriate modprobe.d blacklist file and also pulls in kmod-wl.