Wireless drivers

John W. Linville linville at redhat.com
Tue Nov 23 14:30:51 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:08:43PM -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
> 
> > wireless drivers
> > in laptops that are mostly supported by Fedora, out of the box
> 
> My laptop has a BROADCOM NETXTREME BCM5751M GIGABIT ETHERNET and it uses the 
> tg3 kernel module. I just booted up after the initial installation and it just 
> worked. The kernel module must have been installed by default.

That, of course, is an ethernet device.

I still can't recommend a Broadcom wireless device at this time --
hopefully that is changing.

John
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