[K12OSN] wireless

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, [ISO-8859-1] "Terrell Prud� 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
>
>   

You're right about the 3945, and I should've mentioned that.  Intel
makes it difficult for reasons rather similar to that for Broadcom.  I'd
stay away from those as well.  The other Intel wireless chips, i. e.
pre-3945, work great, though.

--TP
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