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Why is Gnome Shell sending data over my wireless network?

I have been checking which processes under my Fedora Linux 18 are using my upload bandwidth and I occasionally see that Gnome Shell is one of them. Why should it be sending data over my wireless ...
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Spotty wireless with Fedora

I have this Toshiba laptop I started poking around trying to find out why it quits out so often and is just so bad. This guy seems to have the same problem with the fact that it works perfect in ...
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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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Using startx on Fedora 17, a non-root user cannot join new wireless networks — how to fix?

I have Fedora 17 installed on a Lenovo X230, and if I leave it configured to boot into Gnome using systemd's runlevel5.target (or graphical.target), which is the default, networking seems to work just ...
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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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wireless is disabled by hardware switch even when not

I have a spartan computer. It has a built-in wireless module that up until recently I've had no issues with. The current problem is this. Everytime I shutdown the computer and it boots back up, I am ...
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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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Fedora 15: em1 recently dissapeared and hostapd no longer serves internet to wirelessly connected devices

I have a laptop running hostapd, phpd, and mysql. This laptop uses an Ethernet connection to connect to the internet and acts as a wireless access point for my workplace's wifi devices. After ...
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Fedora now tries to connect to wireless at boot?

In my Fedora 16 installation I've recently noticed that it tries to connect to wireless at boot (I have kernel messages turned on at boot so I can see it trying). The issue though is that my wireless ...
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Fedora 15 doesn't find wireless connection

I have Fedora 15 installed on a partition in a Dell laptop. The laptop reports wireless capability in a certain Intel Centrino family, and the drivers for all of these should be in the kernel, ...
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Wireless troubles with Netgear WNA1100

I have a Netgear WNA1100 Wireless Adapter that I bought a few weeks ago, so its fairly new. Last night it was working perfectly. I turned my computer off for the night, came back in the morning, and ...
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BCM4312 802.11b/g under Fedora 14 - suddenly not working

Suddenly "ifconfig -a" doesn't prints out the "wlan0" on my Fedora14 notebook..WHY? (it worked before..) Infos: # dmesg | egrep -i "wireless|wifi|broadcom|bcm4312|10:00.0" [ 0.219841] pci ...
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How to install wireless driver in Fedora 15?

I have tried ndiswrapper 1.56 for fc15... it gives the following error : $ make make -C driver make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dhinesh/sware/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver' make -C ...
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Asus USB N10 wireless adapter works on Ubuntu but not Fedora

I could make it work in Ubuntu, due to this answer. But the same approach shows no result in Fedora 15 (64 bits). The device is an Asus USB N10 (wireless-usb converter): Bus 001 Device 003: ID ...
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Wireless Connectivity and Fedora 15 Boot Up

I'm currently running Fedora 15 and recently I've noticed that if I am in an area which does not have a wireless network or a secured wireless network which I cannot automatically connect to, Fedora ...
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Fedora 15 won't remember wireless password

I just installed Fedora 15 beta with Gnome 3. I've done all the updates. The networking applet asks for the wireless password every time it connects. I found this bug, which says that the issue is ...
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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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Activating WiFi in Fedora

I am using a Fedora 13 OS and i see that in the network connections the WiFi thing has been disabled. Generally when there is a WiFi connection around it would show in the Wireless networks option, ...
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Unable to detect wireless networks in Fedora

I've been using Fedora 13 for around six months, but only with a wired connection in my room. I took my laptop to a college library that has Wifi, but when I turn my system on it doesn't detect any ...