Vincent Onelli wrote: >> > From: Jeroen de Haas <dajero dajero nl> >> > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." >> > <fedora-list redhat com> >> > Subject: Re: Wireless, Broadcom >> > Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:11:14 +0200 > > > >> I am still try to learn Linux, so most of time I am lost like in this >> situation. While I was waiting for the answer I went to >> http://dnmouse.org/autoinstall.html I selected sudo with password it >> downloaded the autonine file running this file assigned the password >> automatically. Now when I repeat the command "sudo apt-get install >> ndiswrapper-common nddiswrapper-utils ndisgtk" it accept the password >> but it cannot find the "apt-get" is this a file that I need to get some >> where? >> Thank you >> Vinny >> > -- > Timothy Murphy > Hello Vinny, > > Fedora uses yum instead of apt-get to install applications. The system > cannot find "apt-get" because the program just isn't there. Furthermore, > ndiswrapper is not included in the official fedora repositories. > > There is a tutorial on setting up ndiswrapper on Fedora: > http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/ndis-yum-livna . This text assumes > you have configured yum to use the livna repository (which does contain > the ndiswrapper packages) as explained in > http://fedoramobile.org/solved/post-install-solutions/yum-config/ . > > I hope this will be enough to get you started. > > Good luck, > > Jeroen > > I am stuck again I downloaded the tutorial and fallowed up to the > paragraph 7. > Paragraph 8 as a link to > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List, > this link is ether incorrect or the side is changed. I tried to find the > broadcom drive but the only > one I found is call "DriveDetective.exe" and does not run under Linux, > it is windows program > I need some direction how to get the proper drive for the broadcom > bcm3406 minipci > > I use the b43 driver with my Fedora 9, and it works much better than when I used ndiswrapper and the Windows driver with Fedora 8. I'd try the reverse engineered driver before going for ndiswrapper. The below link has detailed info on b43 along the b43-Legacy, figuring out which driver, and how to get it all going. I'm pretty sure that's the site I used when I installed Fedora 9. http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
