Yea I know exactly what he is talking about. We had this same problem at school...(using Ubuntu) Ours were recognizing the cards, but not turning them on. It just flat out refused. I found a few questions but no answers on any Linux forums. I think what we ended up doing was using external Wireless NIC's and it seemed to work, although at times it got spotty.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Mohamed Imran K R <mohamedimran.kr@gmail.com> wrote:


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Samuel Teyemensah <tymensk@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have successfully installed fedora on some of my collegues laptops. However, the wireless devices on those laptops could not work. In fact I could not configure wireless on the machines most hp, acer and dell. Is it that fedora does not have wireless drivers for these laptops. if it has, then someone should help me out with the configuration of wireless network connections.

Hello Samuel...
            without the details on the wireless cards present on the laptops, it would be tough to answer your queries on any of the lists especially one meant for ambassadors. The drivers for atheros,intel, broadcom and ralink devices etc is available....Pls check your system config regarding the type of card and also read the archives of the linux-wireless mailing lists...

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Mohamed Imran K R

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