Not able to connect to wifi in Fedora 14

Jim binarynut at comcast.net
Fri Feb 11 13:59:30 UTC 2011


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 .


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