On Friday 11 February 2011 13:59:30 Jim wrote: > On 02/11/2011 02:52 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 11 February 2011 07:34:50 Rohit Farmer wrote: > >> I have just bought Dell Inspiron M501R AMD Phenom Quad Core, which was > >> bundled with windows7 where all the features are working fine. I then > >> installed Fedora 14 64 bit on a partition and now i am not able to > >> connect to wifi. > >> > >> I used the command lspci -vnn and at the end it shows the following, > >> does this output means the drivers of the wlan card is not installed. > >> > >> 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 > >> 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4727] (rev 01) > > > > This is the same device as on my netbook. I have been told that it will > > not work with the b43 driver. I have been promised some help this > > morning on IRC, and I'll report back if I get it to work. > > > > Anne > > Use the kmod-wl and remove b43-cutter rpm . That was the solution. For others with this need, go to http://fedoraunity.org/mobile/fc-wireless/broadcom-linux-sta-driver for instructions. I used the akmod method, incredibly smooth. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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