wireless problem.

[Paolo Galtieri]

I also have wireless problems under F12.  In my case the problem has to do
with network strength.  I have a laptop that dual boots Windows 7 and F12.
Under Windows 7 I can see and connect to more wireless networks than I can
under F12.  In all cases that I have tried if the signal is low or poor F12
will never succeed in connecting, but W7 will.  I have tried both the
internal wireless (Intel 3945) and an external Linksys USB adapter.  Even if
the signal is good F12 will not report available wireless connections.

I normally run F12 so if there is anything I can tweek on F12 to improve
accessibility I would like to know.

Thanks,
Paolo

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Adrin Jalali <adrin.jalali at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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