WiFi Internet

[Karl Larsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>    I have not kept up. Do any of the Fedora Core versions even try to 
>> have a WiFi setup? My laptop has Windows XP and a built in Wi Fi 
>> device. I think the problem has been that no Linux person can get 
>> details on the things.
>>
>>    Of course it works fine with windows.
>>
>> Karl
>>
> It depends somewhat on the chipset in the laptops radio.  This HP has 
> a broadcom bcm4318 radio in it, and this chip requires ndiswrapper and 
> the windows drivers borrowed directly from the XP partition.  Its been 
> hell to make it work, but its now working quite well, and without 
> using NetworkManager because I'm running KDE, its started by the usual 
> network script in /etc/rc.d/init.d at startup for me.  This is not how 
> its supposed to work I keep being told.  But it does...
>
> If you are running gnome, the instructions at
> <http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/>
> should get you at least into the right ballpark.
>
> There is, we're told, some progress on a reverse engineered kernel 
> module to drive this family of chips, but getting info on how to setup 
> this driver is a bit like finding a lifetime supply of hens teeth. 
> Those were, and still are AFAIK, apparently made out of pure 
> unobtainium.  Of course someone closer to the progress of that driver 
> than I obviously am, may chime right in and correct me.  If you are 
> keeping the box up2date with yum or yumex, then the latest kernels 
> actually have this module in them already, and it may be that it can 
> work if thats your chipset.
>
> Otherwise post your lspci output so we can see what chipset the radio is.
>
    Otherwise, the answer is:Fedora Core has no wifi but if your a 
graduate IT you might get it to work. I have heard of the Windows DLL 
with some kind of wrapper software. Geeze!

Karl