Karl Larsen wrote:
I have not kept up. Do any of the Fedora Core versions even try
to have a WiFi setup? My laptop has Windows XP and a built in Wi Fi
device. I think the problem has been that no Linux person can get
details on the things.
Of course it works fine with windows.
Karl
It depends somewhat on the chipset in the laptops radio. This HP has
a broadcom bcm4318 radio in it, and this chip requires ndiswrapper
and the windows drivers borrowed directly from the XP partition. Its
been hell to make it work, but its now working quite well, and
without using NetworkManager because I'm running KDE, its started by
the usual network script in /etc/rc.d/init.d at startup for me. This
is not how its supposed to work I keep being told. But it does...
If you are running gnome, the instructions at
<http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/>
should get you at least into the right ballpark.
There is, we're told, some progress on a reverse engineered kernel
module to drive this family of chips, but getting info on how to
setup this driver is a bit like finding a lifetime supply of hens
teeth. Those were, and still are AFAIK, apparently made out of pure
unobtainium. Of course someone closer to the progress of that driver
than I obviously am, may chime right in and correct me. If you are
keeping the box up2date with yum or yumex, then the latest kernels
actually have this module in them already, and it may be that it can
work if thats your chipset.
Otherwise post your lspci output so we can see what chipset the radio
is.
