R: Re: Not able to connect to wifi in Fedora 14

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 11 February 2011 08:06:15 antonio.montagnani at alice.it wrote:
> >----Messaggio originale----
> >Da: annew at kde.org
> >Data: 11-feb-2011 7.52
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> >A:
> "Community support for Fedora users"<users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
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> >Ogg: Re:
> Not able to connect to wifi in Fedora 14
> 
> >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
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> shows the following, does
> 
> >> this output means the drivers of the wlan card is
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> 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.
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> I have been promised some help this morning on IRC,
> 
> >and I'll report back if I
> 
> get it to work.
> 
> >Anne
> 
> did you try this??:
> 
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=253485

Actually, no, because another webpage said it needed the b43 driver.  I plan 
to try that version today.  The problem, as is so often so, is that 
information from various sources, all apparently reputable, give different 
information.

Anne
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