Wifi for Fedora 12 and my Laptop Dell inspiron N 5010 isn't Working

[karthikkm1987]

Hai I have installed fedora 12 for my Dell laptop inspiron N5010.
But the wifi isn't working.
Please help me setup the wifi connection.

[jayd512]

Fedora 12 is no longer supported. It reached EOL late last year, which will cause you quite a few problems trying to get anything to work properly. I suggest installing a more recent version, such as 14 or 15.

[karthikkm1987]

Mr.Jay I have installed Fedora 12 because of my work related purpose otherwise i would have installed fedora 15 only.
I have to continue with fedora 12 only for 6 to 7 months more until then i cant do anything.
Will you please help me setup wifi please.

[jayd512]

I can understand that. Take a look at the following thread, and post back here with the requested results. Someone should be able to help get you going.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tart-here.html

[karthikkm1987]

I have done that but the output came like this
./Wirelesssetup
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

virbr0 no wireless extensions.

[jayd512]

Could you post all of the output?
So far we still have no real info to go on.

[karthikkm1987]

This the output i got when i run the code in wirelesssetup.txt

[root@karthik karthik]# ./Wirelesssetup
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

virbr0 no wireless extensions.

[root@karthik karthik]#

[atreyu]

Have you tried updated your kernel? The last one released for F12 is 2.6.32.26-175, I believe.

Does the N5010 use the broadcom chipset? I think so, but not sure. Post the output of

lspci

You probably need to manually install the driver, and configure it to load when Linux starts - or update your kernel, in the hopes that the newer one contains the required driver already.