Install FC18 on laptop? Wifi woes

[Bill Davidsen]

Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Are you able to follow these instructions?
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-January/428974.html
>
> I wondered if the problem is that the RPMfusion broadcom-wl is not up
> to date.
>
I believe that the opposite is true, the kernel in the Live-CD is so old that 
the matching drivers are no longer readily found on rpmfusion. The current 
packages match a kernel newer than the one on the Live-CD or install DVD.

Thanks for the link, unfortunately installing thing not in the distro requires 
downloading the packages. It's Catch-22, if I had network connectivity I could 
download the things I need to get network connectivity. But then I wouldn't need 
to...

I can download to external media, but that gets ugly, complex, and vastly 
time-consuming. Install a package, find out what else it needs, repeat indefinitely.

Again, thanks for the help.
> Ranjan
>
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:01:33 -0500 Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to update a laptop to FC18, but that does not seem to be an option,
>> because the Broadcom WiFi is still not supported. It seems that the obvious
>> solutions are not practical, since both the Live-CD and Install kernels use
>> kernels for which rpmfusion has no driver software due to their age.
>>
>> I suppose I could grab another laptop, connect to the net, set up routing,
>> connect the laptops by cable, but that's a real hack. I could also install MINT,
>> since their religious beliefs do not prohibit using freely provided vendor
>> drivers, but I really prefer Fedora.
>>
>> I could provide a USB WiFi adapter which is recognized, only none of the three I
>> have is detected by the kernels provided, even though they all worked on the
>> FC16 gen laptops I was using a year ago or so.
>>
>> I could build my own kernel, but I have never mastered the secure boot sign your
>> own UEFI, and I could run FC18 under KVM, but that doesn't provide the newer
>> security features, just the newer apps, which is not the issue.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot