wireless problem.

[Adrin Jalali]

Hi :)
I checked that, no compelling exists. Also I installed that firmware
manually but it did not work neither. :(
Instructions I done worked with previous Fedora releases.
Best,
Adrin.

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> Check to see what dmesg says. You may need the broadcom firmware, and
> you may need to install it manually. Usually it goes into /lib/firmware.
> You may need to install b43_fwcutter as well as b43_openfwwf. But first,
> check dmesg to see if it is complaining about firmware. My laptop has a
> Broadcom card, but it is currently running Ubuntu, and installing
> b43_fwcutter automatically obtains and installs the firmware.
>
> On 12/25/2009 02:12 PM, Adrin Jalali wrote:
> > Hi there.
> > I'm using fedora 12. I have a broadcom wireless  card and I can not
> > use it. I used it very well with fedora 11 and earlier. I used to
> > install akmod-wl and broadcom-wl. But something  is strange. My
> > network manager understands that I have a card, but that card can not
> > see any network. Furthermore iwlist scan shows me empty result set.
> > Another thing is that when I try to disable wireless with network
> > manager or try to start a virtual machine using qemu/kvm or VMWare
> > workstation, both with a machine which has a network kard, my kernel
> > crashes and I should restart my computer with hardware button of my
> > case. I only can rmmod wl and then I can start those machines. I think
> > that problem is originated by wireless firmware which is not
> > opensource (as I think) because I can plug a USB DLink wireless card
> > and work with it with no problem. But as I had not this problem with
> > previous kernels I think someone can fix it, or tell me a workarround.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Adrin.
>
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