Adam Hastings <h1adam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I can't figure out how to get wifi working in Fedora Core 6 on my new
Toshiba Satellite A135-S2276.
Thanks in advance,
Fedora User Adam
There are three possibilities:
1) The wireless NIC of your laptop has native kernel support,
2) it has a proprietary driver support, or
3) you can use ndiswrapper to use the NIC's Windoze driver under Linux.
Try doing lspci -vv from a command prompt and find the output that
corresponds to the wireless device for your laptop. Post that and
there's a good chance someone here can give you some additional help
getting it working.
For my laptop, lspci -vv gives me:
03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 12f8
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 177
Region 0: Memory at b0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
along with a bunch of other interesting stuff. You want to find the one
that says "Wireless" somewhere.
Cheers,
Dave
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