Configuring/setup of WiFi card on Dell E6220 Laptop

Terry Polzin foxec208 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 19:04:13 UTC 2015


Broadcom is a waste of time, if it's in a slot that you can access and
replace the card an Intel 5100 is a good choice. Or commit a USB port to a
mini adapter that is supported
On Nov 1, 2015 4:50 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:

> yup, same here.. I have a real old Dell XPS laptop with a similar Broadcom
> card.. never got it to work. what you need is the IPW2200 driver..
> you might try uninstalling NetworkManager & installing wicd.
>
>
>
> On 10/31/2015 06:47 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
>
>>
>> I've just installed F22 on a Dell E6220 laptop (in anticipations of next
>> week's F23 rollout).
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> A few issues left to squre
>>
>> I'm trying to setup WiFi (the Ethernet device works correctly, btw).
>>
>> There is an external switch controlling power to the card, and an
>> indicator light. Those show that the item is "on."
>>
>> lspci -v for the WiFi card reports the following:
>>
>> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n
>>
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