On my Compaq dual boot laptop with FC7, I never got my Broadcom 43 wifi to work despite applying numerous suggestions received on this list. Are there relevant improvements in FC8, or is it best to wait for future developments?
Thanks for your advice.
Mike.
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED escribió:
On my Compaq dual boot laptop with FC7, I never got my Broadcom 43 wifi to work despite applying numerous suggestions received on this list. Are there relevant improvements in FC8, or is it best to wait for future developments?
What exact board do you have? (give us the output of lspci)
I have a Compaq presario F505la, and with some work I got it to work very well on Fedora 7. Fedora 8 had some issues, but they were relevent to the kernel driver, so with the updated kernel it works great.
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:10:50 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED escribió:
On my Compaq dual boot laptop with FC7, I never got my Broadcom 43 wifi to work despite applying numerous suggestions received on this list. Are there relevant improvements in FC8, or is it best to wait for future developments?
What exact board do you have? (give us the output of lspci)
I have a Compaq presario F505la, and with some work I got it to work very well on Fedora 7. Fedora 8 had some issues, but they were relevent to the kernel driver, so with the updated kernel it works great.
lspci: ... 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01) ...
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:33 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On my Compaq dual boot laptop with FC7, I never got my Broadcom 43 wifi to work despite applying numerous suggestions received on this list. Are there relevant improvements in FC8, or is it best to wait for future developments?
Thanks for your advice.
Mike.
Which card are you using? I have:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
as a mini wifi card on a Dell Inspiron 2200.
It worked fine under Fedora 6 using ndiswrapper and it works fine under Federa 8 using ndiswrapper.
Rick B.
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:49:44 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:33 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On my Compaq dual boot laptop with FC7, I never got my Broadcom 43 wifi to work despite applying numerous suggestions received on this list. Are there relevant improvements in FC8, or is it best to wait for future developments?
Thanks for your advice.
Mike.
Which card are you using? I have:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
as a mini wifi card on a Dell Inspiron 2200.
It worked fine under Fedora 6 using ndiswrapper and it works fine under Federa 8 using ndiswrapper.
Rick B.
lspci: ... 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01) ...
Does this answer your question? If not, how should I obtain additional information?
Mike.
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:33 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On my Compaq dual boot laptop with FC7, I never got my Broadcom 43 wifi to work despite applying numerous suggestions received on this list. Are there relevant improvements in FC8, or is it best to wait for future developments?
FWIW, I just upgraded my wife's laptop from F7 to F8 (mainly because of problems with b43 in the newest F7 kernel) and it's working beautifully. I did do a clean install, and grabbed the firmware from the web site the driver recommends when it can't find any firmware.
Jonathan
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