[SOLVED] wireless setup

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02-24-2010
sparth5

[SOLVED] wireless setup

I just got a lenovo g550 laptop and installed dual boot with XP and fedora 12 on it.
I'm new to this linux OS, can any one guide me in setting up the wireless internet on the fedora.
I found that my network adaptor is

Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

I don't know how to proceed further.
Any kind of help is appreciated

Thanks
Sudhakar
02-24-2010
reed9

Do you have a wired connection? It will make this much easier.

You need Broadcom's non-free (as in speech) driver. I'm sure of all the details, but distros are not able to distribute this driver, however, the end user is allowed to download and install it.

The 3rd party rpmfusion repository has the necessary driver.
Configuration - RPM Fusion

Enable the non-free (and probably free) sections and do

Code:

su -c 'yum update' su -c 'yum install kmod-wl'
02-24-2010
sparth5

I installed everything as mentioned. How do I proceed further?

Thanks
Sudhakar
02-25-2010
sparth5

Wireless connection

I got this going. I can connect to wireless.
Thanks

Sudhakar
02-25-2010
nujinini

Quote:

Originally Posted by sparth5

I got this going. I can connect to wireless.
Thanks

Sudhakar

Welcome to the forums sparth5 :)

I hope the admins won't consider this as cross posting but if you may permit....

May I ask what happened please? I was actually waiting for the gurus to post their responses because I also have the same wireless card as yours.

Did your wireless just worked after reed9 told you to do these?

Code:

You need Broadcom's non-free (as in speech) driver. I'm sure of all the details, but distros are not able to distribute this driver, however, the end user is allowed to download and install it. The 3rd party rpmfusion repository has the necessary driver. Configuration - RPM Fusion Enable the non-free (and probably free) sections and do su -c 'yum update' su -c 'yum install kmod-wl'

Glad your wireless is working, and thank you in advance!
02-26-2010
Mudgen

You should probably yum install broadcom-wl, which is a meta-package that will pull in kmod-wl but also contains the license and, I think, some config files. IIRC that worked out of the box with my 4322 card.
02-26-2010
sparth5

Wireless connection

I followed exactly the same steps what reed9 suggested and my wireless started getting signals.

Thanks
Sudhakar
02-26-2010
Mudgen

That's terrific. You apparently did not need the modprobe.d blacklist file from broadcom-wl. Often the b43 or other drivers will already be enabled and will conflict. The blacklist blocks load of the ones known to be a problem