On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Z3N58@xxxxxxxxx<Z3N58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > i'm a new user of Fedora 'cause I was using another distribution of linux > > and i want to put F11 on my laptop (Hp 6735s) but I tryed the live version and > > the wifi is not working...i wanna jnow if is just a live problem and if is like > > that installing F11 the problem will be solved or is a problem with the > > wireless hardware (Broadcom 802.11). Are just some months that i'm using linux > > and i'm not so good at it. > thank's to everybody! > ivan [clipped] In my experience, Linux is still somewhat immature in the wireless area, but does seem to be catching up rapidly (this is obviously a pretty high demand area). As with most linux-hardware issues, the real problem is vendor support for the Linux kernel. But I digress. I'm guessing the problem will not magically solve itself just by installing F11, but I can't say for sure. I think certain wireless devices just aren't supported in Linux yet, but if you already had it working in another distro, then that's probably not the issue. Personally, I've only tried a few different wireless devices with linux, but the only one that I could get to work was the Linksys WUSB54GC USB Wireless network adapter, but I think any device that uses Ralink rt73 chipset has good support in Linux. Specifically, the drivers for this chipset are part of the Fedora distro: I just recently installed F11 and didn't have to do anything special, the USB wireless adapter just worked. Info on what other chipsets/devices currently enjoy Linux support are avaiable at this page: http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_hostif.php Hope that helps some. -Brian -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://keys.gnupg.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
