fedora 12 wireless broadcom does not detect any networks.
shmuel siegel
fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Wed Dec 2 10:41:00 UTC 2009
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
>
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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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