Dell Latitude 131L and Fedora 8

[Carlo Alberto Bedogni]

hi i have F7 and a bcm4306 working very fine , i use fwcutter
take a look at this ( but is italian )

http://www.centos-italia.org/index.php/topic,7.0.html


On 11/5/07, Al Thompson <biggles58 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Fabio Tust <fabiotust at gmail.com>
> To: fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 12:14:12 PM
> Subject: Dell Latitude 131L and Fedora 8
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> >I have a Dell 131L laptop running Fedora 7 x64, but the wifi don't work. My
> wifi is a Broadcom and >the driver is bcm43xx. I tried various tutorials on
> de web, using ndiswrapper or fwcutter and winxp >drivers, but don't getting
> sucess.
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> I'm having the same trouble with Fedora Core 7 on a Compaq laptop with a
> Broadcom internal wifi.  I can actually get as far as being able to
> configure it using iwconfig, and it will even scan for APs, and give me the
> results.  However, I cannot ping out of it, and the GUI steadfastly refuses
> to see it.
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> On a whim, I tried a USB wifi device, with the exact same results, so maybe
> it's not specific to the Broadcom device.
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> If you find an answer, post it here!
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