Install FC18 on laptop? Wifi woes

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sat Jan 19 14:55:56 UTC 2013


On 01/19/2013 10:42 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Bill Davidsen 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. 
> I'd be interested to know if Fedora-18 KDE Live
> ever makes a WiFi connection,
> as it doesn't do so on my Thinkpad T60 with Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG,
> which usually seems to work "out of the box" under Linux.
>

FWIW, my F18-64 KDE-Live (VirtualBox VM) makes a WiFi connection.  It has attached to it a USB WiFi module, Ralink RT3070.

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