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I just installed Fedora 11 on my laptop and can't get the wireless to work. Fedora found it and shows everything as it should be, except I can't activate it...
This is the output of the nice little bash script, and I really don't know what to do with it... If anyone could help me I'd be really happy, 'cause then I can stop using Vista
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============ lspci ============
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:2944] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2948] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4354] (rev 13)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: sky2
Kernel modules: sky2
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb
============ lsusb ============
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:180a Ricoh Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Stroage Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
============ lsmod ============
Module Size Used by
vfat 11728 0
fat 53112 1 vfat
fuse 64448 2
nfsd 298192 9
lockd 78708 1 nfsd
nfs_acl 3328 1 nfsd
auth_rpcgss 44992 1 nfsd
exportfs 4672 1 nfsd
bridge 61280 0
stp 2836 1 bridge
llc 6816 2 bridge,stp
bnep 20320 2
sco 21220 2
l2cap 40992 3 bnep
bluetooth 99028 5 bnep,sco,l2cap
sunrpc 207352 11 nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss
ip6t_REJECT 5968 2
nf_conntrack_ipv6 23384 2
ip6table_filter 4208 1
ip6_tables 20576 1 ip6table_filter
ipv6 322280 28 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
cpufreq_ondemand 8744 2
acpi_cpufreq 11024 0
freq_table 5120 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
dm_multipath 18152 0
uinput 9856 0
b43 141000 0
mac80211 234760 1 b43
cfg80211 67912 2 b43,mac80211
input_polldev 4432 1 b43
snd_hda_codec_idt 68256 1
snd_hda_intel 30488 2
snd_hda_codec 78608 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
dell_laptop 4792 0
rfkill 12372 2 b43,dell_laptop
snd_hwdep 9736 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 88440 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 24224 1 snd_pcm
uvcvideo 61644 0
dcdbas 11536 1 dell_laptop
snd 73016 10 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
videodev 36960 1 uvcvideo
soundcore 7584 1 snd
v4l1_compat 14580 2 uvcvideo,videodev
i2c_i801 13296 0
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 10864 1 videodev
usb_storage 62240 0
pcspkr 3152 0
wmi 7744 0
joydev 12608 0
iTCO_wdt 13536 0
iTCO_vendor_support 3780 1 iTCO_wdt
sky2 51956 0
snd_page_alloc 10064 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
serio_raw 7124 0
ssb 49280 1 b43
i915 191304 2
drm 228580 2 i915
i2c_algo_bit 6612 1 i915
video 24844 1 i915
output 3552 1 video
i2c_core 33504 4 i2c_i801,i915,drm,i2c_algo_bit
============ dmesg-firmware ============
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-17-0a
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-17-0a
============ kernel version ============
2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64
Thank you! I got it working now, had some problems after, but then I figured out that it couldn't decide for itself which network to use, so I had to help it... Thank you
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