[K12OSN] wireless

[Julius Szelagiewicz]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, [ISO-8859-1] "Terrell Prudé Jr." wrote:

> Dan Young wrote:
> > On 10/17/07, willhatch at fayhoneyknoppschool.org
> > <willhatch at fayhoneyknoppschool.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop that I have installed Fedora Core 6 on.
> >> The install went perfect, and now I'm trying to get the wireless going.  The
> >> card is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [Airforce One 54G] 802.11 Wireless
> >> Lan Controller.  How do I get this thing going?  Thanks!
> >>
> >
> > yum install bcm43xx-fwcutter
> > less /usr/share/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter-*/README.Fedora
> > less /usr/share/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter-*/README
> >
>
> And in the future, avoid any laptops or other computers with that
> Broadcom junk.  If you can replace that wireless card with something
> else, so much the better.  Look for Ralink, Realtek, or Intel wireless
> instead.
>
> I've had to wrestle with that Broadcom crap before.  FWCutter does
> indeed work, but we shouldn't have to do it.
>
> Vote with your wallet.  It works.
>
> --TP
>
Terrel,
	I'm not so sure about Intel - I've been trying to get the 3945ABG
to work for about a year now, to no avail.
julius