Anne Wilson wrote: >On Saturday 26 February 2011 15:10:24 Suresh Govindachar wrote: >>Alan Cox replied as follows: >>>On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 >>>"Suresh Govindachar" wrote: >>> >>>> In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop >>>> with [Fedora was missing in OP]-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, >>>> I have gotten as far as being able to create a live usb >>>> stick. My next step is to get on the internet via the Dell >>>> Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card and my "WPA" >>>> network. ... > >> "lspci -nn" shows BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n 14e4:4326 (rev01). ... >> [ http://linuxwireless.org is probably obsolete] >> ... > > You were googling the wrong thing. You should have been > looking for BCM4322. Here is the link you need - > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=233919 - > it's for Fedora 12, but exactly the same is needed for > Fedora 14 (I know, I had to install it on my netbook). > Thanks; saw that and also http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=255435 ... >>> The firmware on all the broadcom cards I have seen is >>> loaded each time you boot (each OS loading whatever it >>> comes with). >> >> Thanks for the info. >> ... >> Sorry if the original post was not clear, but my questions >> are about wireless access from Live USB of _Fedora_14_. >> > It should be possible to install the driver to the USB > stick, I would think. I read http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt carefully; and in each of the following attempts, I made use of the instructions in the README. I tried the rpms: broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch.rpm kmod-wl-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64-5.60.48.36-2.fc14.2.x86_64.rpm kmod-wl-5.60.48.36-2.fc14.2.x86_64.rpm which didn't work. Then downloaded sources from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php and compiled on 2.6.28-18-generic Ubuntu, fc5, and rhel5 -- none of these worked either. Then I tried what I should have tried at the very beginning: used an ethernet cable -- but F14 could not detect the network even via the ethernet cable! In thinking about moving from XP to Linux, I never expected that just getting started with Linux would be such a hassle! To recap, the latest Ubuntu Live CD wouldn't even boot; the latest CentOS couldn't find the internal drive; and F14 ended up not finding the network. --Suresh -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
