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Broadcom wireless card in with Fedora 16
I just installed Fedora as a dual-boot (other OS in Win7) on my Dell Inspiron 1750 and, of course, the wireless card is missing firmware.
The wireless card is called Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN ...
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Unable to connect to a wifi network with a special SSID
My current wifi network (and i'm writing this with the help of Windows -.- ) has a special character in it's SSID: "รถ", a so-called "umlaut".
If changing the SSID is not an option, how to connect to ...
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Running Ubuntu of a USB stick. Can't install wireless driver
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my 8 gb USB stick, and got it running. It seems like I don't have the full Ubuntu OS on the stick though, and that was my intention. Anyway, I can run a "demo" version ...
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Multiple USB wireless devices?
I have a broadcom wireless card in my laptop and as far as I know, it acts as an USB device.
I also have one USB stick wireless device (TL-WN422G - uses ath9k_htc driver) which I want to use at the ...
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Fedora 18 No Wireless
Just installed Fedora 18 and I can't get the wireless to work.
What do I have and what have I done?
I have a Broadcom BCM4312 which is supported by the broadcom-wl driver. (link)
lspci | grep ...
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No wireless network for the first 30 seconds
A few days ago, I managed to get my wireless network working on ArchLinux.
My network card is:
~/ lspci | grep Network
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
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Kernel 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 broadcom wireless not appearing
I'm using kernel 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 and I have a Broadcom 4312.
When I run iwconfig, I get the following:
lo no wireless extensions.
p2p1 no wireless extensions.
I cannot use ...
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brcmsmac does not work
I am attempting to enable my wireless interface in Slax Linux, so far, I know the driver I need is brcmsmac, since I have a broadcom card; and this work in Slackware.
The driver is available and does ...
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Help with getting wifi up and running in Arch Linux on Mac Mini 3,1
I am dual booting arch linux on my mac mini 3,1. Am trying to get the WiFi to work and have hit a block. Am a Linux noob so have a couple of questions which I will put in bold.
Following these ...
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How can I get Broadcom 4301 to work in Crunchbang Linux?
I've sunk about 6 hours into this and have not made much progress.
I've installed Crunchbang, 32-bit, Waldorf on a Dell Inspiron D600.
Before I took any steps, the network manager told me ...
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Modifying TG3 Broadcom driver
I was wondering whether it's possible to modify the said driver in order to prevent adapter from using embedded SRAM, and use system RAM instead. And if so, how to do it.
I have a laptop with ...
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Errors while installing broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-1.fc12.noarch
I have Fedora 12 on a Dell Vostro laptop.
broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-1.fc12.noarch.rpm cannot be installed. I'm getting this error:
Error: Package: broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-1.fc12.noarch ...
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CentOS 6.3 (kernel 2.6.32-279) & wl-kmod won't compile
I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to compile a Broadcom driver for use on my CentOS laptop. Previously, I had used the instructions located here to compile and it worked flawlessly.
Now, I cannot ...
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Enabling bwn in FreeBSD
I am trying to load the bwn driver as a module as mentioned in the man page.
However, when I attempted to edit /boot/defaults/loader.conf I could not write the changes to the file, this was attempted ...
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Does BCM4312 802.11 b/g LP-PHYnetwork controller support hostap ?
I have been trying to get my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop to make an access point to connect my blackberry playbook . hostapd gave error
Configuration file: ./hostapd-minimal.conf
nl80211: 'nl80211' ...
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Fedora 12 No wireless networks detected
I have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1510 and loaded Fedora 12 along with Windows. I cannot detect any wireless networks through my network applet on the tool bar.
$:lscpi
12:00.0 Network controller: ...
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Debian Live - modprobe failed to bring up Broadcom ethernet interfaces
I have a Dell 710 with Quad Bcom NetExtreme 5709s. In the name of expediency, I'm trying to boot off the Squeeze live CD, but the Broadcom drivers are in non-free, so they don't come up when you ...
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Opensuse 11.3 with Dell inspiron 1564 wireless
When I was using ubuntu i used to add the cd to software sources and install a package called bcmwl* and the wireless would work immediately. Now on Opensuse the wireless is not working and as a ...
