Re: wireless problem.

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On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 08:08:42AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> I also have wireless problems under F12.  In my case the problem has to do
> with network strength.  I have a laptop that dual boots Windows 7 and F12.
> Under Windows 7 I can see and connect to more wireless networks than I can
> under F12.  In all cases that I have tried if the signal is low or poor F12
> will never succeed in connecting, but W7 will.  I have tried both the
> internal wireless (Intel 3945) and an external Linksys USB adapter.  Even if
> the signal is good F12 will not report available wireless connections.
> 
> I normally run F12 so if there is anything I can tweek on F12 to improve
> accessibility I would like to know.

FWIW, just one more data point: when I ran F10 on my eeepc 901 (ralink
wireless) it showed many more wireless APs in my neighborhood than it
now does on F12. I still get good signal strength on my own AP, but it
seems odd that it now tends to show 1/2 to 2/3 of the number it used
to show. (I now see six or eight, including mine, I used to see 10-14
routinely). I suppose some of them may have gone off the air....

> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Adrin Jalali <adrin.jalali@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
> > Hi :)
> > I checked that, no compelling exists. Also I installed that firmware
> > manually but it did not work neither. :(
> > Instructions I done worked with previous Fedora releases.
> > Best,
> > Adrin.
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Check to see what dmesg says. You may need the broadcom firmware, and
> >> you may need to install it manually. Usually it goes into /lib/firmware.
> >> You may need to install b43_fwcutter as well as b43_openfwwf. But first,
> >> check dmesg to see if it is complaining about firmware. My laptop has a
> >> Broadcom card, but it is currently running Ubuntu, and installing
> >> b43_fwcutter automatically obtains and installs the firmware.
> >>
> >> On 12/25/2009 02:12 PM, Adrin Jalali wrote:
> >> > Hi there.
> >> > I'm using fedora 12. I have a broadcom wireless  card and I can not
> >> > use it. I used it very well with fedora 11 and earlier. I used to
> >> > install akmod-wl and broadcom-wl. But something  is strange. My
> >> > network manager understands that I have a card, but that card can not
> >> > see any network. Furthermore iwlist scan shows me empty result set.
> >> > Another thing is that when I try to disable wireless with network
> >> > manager or try to start a virtual machine using qemu/kvm or VMWare
> >> > workstation, both with a machine which has a network kard, my kernel
> >> > crashes and I should restart my computer with hardware button of my
> >> > case. I only can rmmod wl and then I can start those machines. I think
> >> > that problem is originated by wireless firmware which is not
> >> > opensource (as I think) because I can plug a USB DLink wireless card
> >> > and work with it with no problem. But as I had not this problem with
> >> > previous kernels I think someone can fix it, or tell me a workarround.
> >> >
> >> > Best Regards,
> >> > Adrin.
> >>
> >>
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