Fedora 12 on M17x[R2]

Just installed Fedora 12 and am having trouble with the Dell Wireless 1520 driver.

I have no idea how to get it to work - I'm a total n00b and still learning but I just cant find a driver.

Anyone with a M17x get this working? (R2 version?)

Thanks in advance!

 

I think from memory, there aren't a lot of wireless drivers, and there was this other one that was bound to work, but I can't think of it atm. When it comes to mind, I'll let you know, or if anyone else has the solution, please share it while I think

 

Hi,
post here output of :
dmesg | grep -i wifi
dmesg | grep -i error
dmesg | grep -i warning
lspci -v (need root priv. for this)

 

AFAIR, you need the STA driver, you can google for more details.
I didn't keep Fedora for long though, had often hard freezes and very glitchy support for the 4870s.
I recommend Ubuntu 9.10. You can get all drivers working from the Hardware Drivers. Still, not perfect IMO, but less headache, especially if you're not a hardcore linux user.

 

If you open a terminal window and type the following;

Code:

sudo lspci |grep -i Broadcom

(it will ask you to enter in your password, which is normal), you may see something similar to the following;

Code:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4353 (rev 01)

Ignore the Ethernet controller line, which is specific to the wired ethernet port, and see that the other line states that this laptop has a Broadcom 4353 series Network controller, which is the WiFi hardware. As Aikimox has stated, this is the newer Broadcom WiFi hardware that is supported by the Broadcom STA driver.

If after you search through your PCI bus hardware, you see that you also have a 43xx series Broadcom Network (WiFi) controller, then you need to perform the steps listed in this webpage, to get the proper driver installed under Fedora. Unfortunately you will need to connect your laptop via the wired ethernet port to the internet, in order to perform the installation. If after you get the driver installed, you find that it isn't working too well, like this Ubuntu forum user posted, then you may want to try your hand at downloading the latest version of the Broadcom STA driver and compiling it yourself, as described in this blog post.

Good Luck..

 

Did you get the integrated camera working?

 

As usual, Broadcom wireless is to be avoided. You can get it to limp along with some binary drivers, but it won't be pretty.

 

yes....exactly....one learns to buy for linux

 

I've done the broadcom wireless driver workaround, not pretty, but not very hard either. I had the same problem with flash, also wasn't pretty, but got it to work in less than half hour. With a good search you can get it done fast.

The problem is really on some exotic hardware like SLI and such.