Hi, i'm very sorry for the object, i can assure that wasn't intenctional, i forgot! so, using the command lspci the answer is: 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) i don't know lther cmd to know wich version of broadcom i have. reading tha page http://www.dnmouse. org/broadcom.html i can understand that is supported but afther is written "only tha 2.4 Ghz part" and i don't understand if with my cpu (AMD Sempron™ SI- 42 2,1 GHz, cache L2 = 512 KB) will works! thank's everybody for the answers... ivan >----Messaggio originale---- >Da: bmearns@xxxxxxxx >Data: 26/06/2009 14.24 >A: "Z3N58@xxxxxxxxx"<Z3N58@xxxxxxxxx>, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."<fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >Ogg: Re: [was (no subject)] Wireless in F11 > >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
