Fedora 9 on XPS 1530 Wireless

Hey guys, it's been sometime since i have been here. I have one tiny question that is very bothering and annoying.
I need to use linux for school and i chose the really nice fedora 9 distro because i have been since te fedora 4 days.

I am trying to connect to my wireless but wihout any success. This is my first linux laptop so i never really messed with the Wireless on linux before.

Any special configuration?

Thanks guys,

 

BUMP!

 

I am not sure I understand your problem. Is it that your wireless adapter is recognized by the OS but doesn't connect to your router or is it that your wireless adapter is not configured/recognized by the OS?
I have Fedora 9 on one of my desktops and I like it a lot but I had a wale of a time getting a Netgear WiFi card working on it.

 

Check if Fedora has detected you WiFi card

you check using this command

Code:

 'lspci | grep Network'

 

I cant connect to my wifi network and i dont know how to configure it...


Here is what i get when i type lspci

Code:

[криеглоцк@localhost ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)
03:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
03:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01)
[root@localhost ~]# 

 

You have Broadcom BCM4310. You'll need to either cut and install the firmware in /lib/firmware (is this correct?) or use ndiswrapper, which is what I did.

 

You'll want to use the NDISWrapper program and the Windows XP driver for your BCM4310 WiFi hardware because the native linux b43 driver does not yet support the BCM4310.

If you go to this Dell support page it basically contains the process for installing NDISWrapper and the Windows XP Broadcom drivers under Linux. The only difference, since these instructions are for Ubuntu, is to install NDISWrapper using the method for Fedora, and not Ubuntu. So instead of using apt-get, the command would likely be;

Code:

yum install ndiswrapper

This blog post also describes another person's efforts to install NDISWrapper and the Windows XP drivers for the BCM4310 WiFi hardware in their HP laptop, using Fedora.

Good Luck..

 

Alright guys, thanks for the help and i will report tonight!

 

Well, thanks for the help.

It works, finaly.

Super easy to work the stuff.

But im looking to autoload ndiswrapper because its a pain in typing

Code:

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

in the terminal each time.

Anyone got some tricks fo that?

 

The last two steps described in this howto are;

Code:

sudo echo "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modprobe.conf

and

Code:

sudo ndiswrapper -m

See if this completes your installation.

Good Luck..