WiFi Internet
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun May 14 00:34:41 UTC 2006
Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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
>
You are doing no one a favor by spreading fertilizer of that quality.
--
Cheers, Gene
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