WiFi Internet

[Dan]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>    I have not kept up. Do any of the Fedora Core versions even try 
>>> to have a WiFi setup? My laptop has Windows XP and a built in Wi Fi 
>>> device. I think the problem has been that no Linux person can get 
>>> details on the things.
>>>
>>>    Of course it works fine with windows.
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>> It depends somewhat on the chipset in the laptops radio.  This HP has 
>> a broadcom bcm4318 radio in it, and this chip requires ndiswrapper 
>> and the windows drivers borrowed directly from the XP partition.  Its 
>> been hell to make it work, but its now working quite well, and 
>> without using NetworkManager because I'm running KDE, its started by 
>> the usual network script in /etc/rc.d/init.d at startup for me.  This 
>> is not how its supposed to work I keep being told.  But it does...
>>
>> If you are running gnome, the instructions at
>> <http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/>
>> should get you at least into the right ballpark.
>>
>> There is, we're told, some progress on a reverse engineered kernel 
>> module to drive this family of chips, but getting info on how to 
>> setup this driver is a bit like finding a lifetime supply of hens 
>> teeth. Those were, and still are AFAIK, apparently made out of pure 
>> unobtainium.  Of course someone closer to the progress of that driver 
>> than I obviously am, may chime right in and correct me.  If you are 
>> keeping the box up2date with yum or yumex, then the latest kernels 
>> actually have this module in them already, and it may be that it can 
>> work if thats your chipset.
>>
>> Otherwise post your lspci output so we can see what chipset the radio 
>> is.
>>
>    Otherwise, the answer is:Fedora Core has no wifi but if your a 
> graduate IT you might get it to work. I have heard of the Windows DLL 
> with some kind of wrapper software. Geeze!
>
> Karl
>
 BTW, as someone else said, to find the wireless chipset look at the 
output of lspci (from a live distro if linux isn't installed yet).
-Dan