Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 26 February 2011 15:10:24 Suresh Govindachar wrote:
Alan Cox replied as follows:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote:
In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop with [Fedora was missing in OP]-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, I have gotten as far as being able to create a live usb stick. My next step is to get on the internet via the Dell Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card and my "WPA" network.
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"lspci -nn" shows BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n 14e4:4326 (rev01).
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[ http://linuxwireless.org is probably obsolete]
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You were googling the wrong thing. You should have been looking for BCM4322. Here is the link you need - http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=233919 - it's for Fedora 12, but exactly the same is needed for Fedora 14 (I know, I had to install it on my netbook).
Thanks; saw that and also http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=255435 ...
The firmware on all the broadcom cards I have seen is loaded each time you boot (each OS loading whatever it comes with).
Thanks for the info.
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Sorry if the original post was not clear, but my questions are about wireless access from Live USB of _Fedora_14_.
It should be possible to install the driver to the USB stick, I would think.
I read http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt carefully; and in each of the following attempts, I made use of the instructions in the README. I tried the rpms:
broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch.rpm kmod-wl-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64-5.60.48.36-2.fc14.2.x86_64.rpm kmod-wl-5.60.48.36-2.fc14.2.x86_64.rpm
which didn't work. Then downloaded sources from
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
and compiled on 2.6.28-18-generic Ubuntu, fc5, and rhel5 -- none of these worked either.
Then I tried what I should have tried at the very beginning: used an ethernet cable -- but F14 could not detect the network even via the ethernet cable!
In thinking about moving from XP to Linux, I never expected that just getting started with Linux would be such a hassle!
To recap, the latest Ubuntu Live CD wouldn't even boot; the latest CentOS couldn't find the internal drive; and F14 ended up not finding the network.
--Suresh