Help with another wireless comp

08-27-2009

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Seraphan

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Help with another wireless comp

I'm back looking for help with another comp and now with Fedora 11.
Here's the lsmod:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   49764  2 
sco                     9356  2 
bridge                 41496  0 
stp                     1944  1 bridge
llc                     4788  2 bridge,stp
bnep                   10888  2 
l2cap                  18912  3 bnep
bluetooth              44908  5 sco,bnep,l2cap
sunrpc                152416  1 
ip6t_REJECT             3160  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6      11368  2 
ip6table_filter         3136  1 
ip6_tables             10728  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6                  232512  40 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
cpufreq_ondemand        6052  8 
acpi_cpufreq            8220  0 
dm_multipath           13636  0 
uinput                  6496  0 
nvidia               9533768  26 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   189448  1 
snd_hda_intel          23920  4 
snd_hda_codec          54288  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
firewire_ohci          19116  0 
firewire_core          36496  1 firewire_ohci
snd_hwdep               6596  1 snd_hda_codec
iTCO_wdt               10448  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     2736  1 iTCO_wdt
snd_pcm                62092  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              17896  1 snd_pcm
e1000e                 99996  0 
snd                    49084  13 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
crc_itu_t               1580  1 firewire_core
i2c_i801                8056  0 
soundcore               5404  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7572  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
pcspkr                  2156  0 
serio_raw               4856  0 
dcdbas                  6776  0 
ata_generic             4312  0 
pata_acpi               3668  0 
nouveau               437768  0 
drm                   167132  1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit            4836  1 nouveau
i2c_core               18056  5 nvidia,i2c_i801,nouveau,drm,i2c_algo_bit

and lspci:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub to ESI Port (rev 12)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 12)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 12)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev 12)
00:10.0 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 Physical and Link Layer Registers Port 0 (rev 12)
00:10.1 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 Routing and Protocol Layer Registers Port 0 (rev 12)
00:14.0 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers (rev 12)
00:14.1 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers (rev 12)
00:14.2 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers (rev 12)
00:14.3 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub Throttle Registers (rev 12)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LF-2 Gigabit Network Connection
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 2
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 3403
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)

if anything else is needed, let me know, thanks.

08-27-2009

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Quote:

02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

Your card.

The 4328 doesn't work with the native linux b43 driver. You need the broadcom-wl driver.

Instructions here:
Broadcom Linux STA Driver — Fedora Unity Project

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08-28-2009	#3 (permalink)
waterhead Trusted Penguin Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Franklin, Wisconsin Posts: 3,958	As the link that reed9 gave you says, the Broadcom-wl driver can be installed using the RPM Fusion repository. But it doesn't tell you how to enable the repository. Here is a link to the RPM Fusion web site, where you can find instructions to enable this repository. RPM Fusion - RPM Fusion __________________ Paul Please do not PM me with requests for help. I will not reply.

09-04-2009	#4 (permalink)
Seraphan Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 15	Sorry for the long reply, work has been killing me. Anyways, I switched back to Fedora 10 since I felt 11 still wasn't complete enough. Maybe once 12 launches, I'll give 11 another try. I got my desktops wireless to work with the RPM fusion and the instructions provided by reed9. Fedora 11 would install the broadcom-wl but modprobe would fail, I don't remember the exact error. Thanks again to reed9 and waterhead for the help.

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