Wireless network problems - Dell Inspiron 1501

[Martin Marques]

Jimmy Bradley escribió:
> I'm sorry to be plugging another distro on this list, but I couldn't get
> f8 to work on a dell laptop I just acquired, so I tried Mepis 6.5, and
> it automatically detected the wireless card in it and everything. All I
> had to do was enter the key and all. I don't want it to sound like I'm
> badmouthing F8, but there just seems to be more problems than usual with
> this release. One more thing, the newest release of Mepis is 7. I
> haven't tried it yet, so I can't say anything about it.

The broadcom driver was very broken in kernel 2.6.23. Worked OK in 
2.6.22 and works great on 2.6.24rc6.

There is a fix for fc8 in koji which works great.