Not able to connect to wifi in Fedora 14

[Rohit Farmer]

Hello everyone,

I have just bought Dell Inspiron M501R AMD Phenom Quad Core, which was
bundled with windows7 where all the features are working fine. I then
installed Fedora 14 64 bit on a partition and now i am not able to connect
to wifi.

I used the command  lspci -vnn and at the end it shows the following, does
this output means the drivers of the wlan card is not installed.

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g
LP-PHY [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0010]
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7
    Memory at fe900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>

05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0448]
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
    I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
    Memory at d0110000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Memory at d0100000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Expansion ROM at fe800000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
    Kernel modules: r8169


Can anyone please suggest me how to connect to wifi on Fedora 14.


Thanks and Regards

Rohit

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[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 11 February 2011 13:59:30 Jim wrote:
>  On 02/11/2011 02:52 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>  > On Friday 11 February 2011 07:34:50 Rohit Farmer wrote:
>  >> I have just bought Dell Inspiron M501R AMD Phenom Quad Core, which was
>  >> bundled with windows7 where all the features are working fine. I then
>  >> installed Fedora 14 64 bit on a partition and now i am not able to
>  >> connect to wifi.
>  >> 
>  >> I used the command  lspci -vnn and at the end it shows the following,
>  >> does this output means the drivers of the wlan card is not installed.
>  >> 
>  >> 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313
>  >> 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
>  > 
>  > This is the same device as on my netbook.  I have been told that it will
>  > not work with the b43 driver.  I have been promised some help this
>  > morning on IRC, and I'll report back if I get it to work.
>  > 
>  > Anne
>  
>  Use the kmod-wl and remove b43-cutter rpm . 
That was the solution.  For others with this need, go to 
http://fedoraunity.org/mobile/fc-wireless/broadcom-linux-sta-driver for 
instructions.  I used the akmod method, incredibly smooth.

Anne
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[Mickey]

On 02/11/2011 02:52 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>  On Friday 11 February 2011 07:34:50 Rohit Farmer wrote:
> > I have just bought Dell Inspiron M501R AMD Phenom Quad Core, which was
> > bundled with windows7 where all the features are working fine. I then
> > installed Fedora 14 64 bit on a partition and now i am not able to connect
> > to wifi.
> >
> > I used the command  lspci -vnn and at the end it shows the following, does
> > this output means the drivers of the wlan card is not installed.
> >
> > 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g
> > LP-PHY [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
>  This is the same device as on my netbook.  I have been told that it will not
>  work with the b43 driver.  I have been promised some help this morning on IRC,
>  and I'll report back if I get it to work.
>
>  Anne 
Use the kmod-wl and remove b43-cutter rpm .

[JB]

Rohit Farmer <rohit.farmer <at> gmail.com> writes:

>  ... 
This should give you some initial help:
Google search: fedora wireless BCM4313

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1442742

JB

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 11 February 2011 07:34:50 Rohit Farmer wrote:
>  I have just bought Dell Inspiron M501R AMD Phenom Quad Core, which
> was
>  bundled with windows7 where all the features are working fine. I then
>  installed Fedora 14 64 bit on a partition and now i am not able to connect
>  to wifi.
>  
>  I used the command  lspci -vnn and at the end it shows the following, does
>  this output means the drivers of the wlan card is not installed.
>  
>  04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g
>  LP-PHY [14e4:4727] (rev 01) 
This is the same device as on my netbook.  I have been told that it will not 
work with the b43 driver.  I have been promised some help this morning on IRC, 
and I'll report back if I get it to work.

Anne
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