wifi enabling

[narendraw1 palavalli]

hai i have installed fedora9 recently in my hp pavillion dv 9617nr laptop it
has a broadcom802.11b/g wireless card
i m not able to connect to the network i tried even giving the ip address
and tryin its not possible so please can u help me with this

[dexter]

On Tue September 2 2008 18:09:36 narendraw1 palavalli wrote:
> hai i have installed fedora9 recently in my hp pavillion dv 9617nr laptop
> it has a broadcom802.11b/g wireless card
> i m not able to connect to the network i tried even giving the ip address
> and tryin its not possible so please can u help me with this

Read dmesg it should tell you to go here:
www.linuxwireless.org

[Maurizio Marini]

On Tuesday 02 September 2008, dexter wrote:
> On Tue September 2 2008 18:09:36 narendraw1 palavalli wrote:
> > hai i have installed fedora9 recently in my hp pavillion dv 9617nr laptop
> > it has a broadcom802.11b/g wireless card
> > i m not able to connect to the network i tried even giving the ip address
> > and tryin its not possible so please can u help me with this

i have a compaq n750 with this wifi card:
# lspci
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI 
(rev 02)

try to use NetworkManager
/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
it helped me on searching wifi ap to connect to

-m