fedora 12 wireless broadcom does not detect any networks.

[Adrin Jalali]

when I installed fresh F12 my wireless was not working.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM, shmuel siegel <fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu>wrote:

> Adrin Jalali wrote:
>
>> yes. I did not install that kmod, but akmod has the source rpm inside and
>> kmodtools installs correct rpm from that source. so when you reboot using a
>> new kernel, at first time, that rpm is built and installed automatically.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Greg <aptget40 at gmail.com <mailto:
>> aptget40 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 2/12/2009 6:59 PM, Adrin Jalali wrote:
>>
>>>    Dear all,
>>>    using a laptop dell latitude E6500 I have a broadcom wireless card.
>>>    I installed these packages:
>>>    kmod-wl-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64-5.10.91.9.3-3.fc12.6.x86_64
>>>    akmod-wl-5.10.91.9.3-3.fc12.6.x86_64
>>>    broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-1.fc12.noarch
>>>
>>>    then reboot. but I have not my wireless card enabled. and I get:
>>>
>>>    # modprobe wl
>>>    FATAL: Module wl not found.
>>>
>>>     what happens if you take out the
>>    kmod-wl-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64-5.10.91.9.3-3.fc12.6.x86_64 ? i
>>    would of thought all you need is the akmod
>>
>>    --    *Regards Greg*
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>>  what happens if you take out all of the kmod stuff. Wireless worked for
> me on a del d620 out of the box with an f12 install.
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