Comments on: RPM installation of Broadcom 802.11 STA wireless driver in Fedora 8/9/10

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:21:28 +0000

James G - the RPM version in Fedora 11 is already 5.10.91.9.3 and has been for some time. Not sure how manually installing it would make any difference, and I have tested it with WPA (use it daily) and it works just fine.

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:20:47 +0000

Thanks! This workes like a charm!
Ton's of tutorials who failed, but this; simple and effective. Thanks!

By: James G

James G — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:59:53 +0000

For those having problems connecting to WPA protected networks try manually installing the 5.10.91.9.3 driver, it fixed it for me in Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

By: albert

albert — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:48:19 +0000

OK this is weird. It worked great for me the first time but I had to reinstall Fedora because of a video driver mishap. Now when I follow the steps above everything seems to install fine but the computer still doesn't show any wifi card. Any ideas?

By: Gerhard

Gerhard — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:55:58 +0000

Thank yo very much for the information, im using my wirless conection to type this, really good tutorial, and the comments just made all this happend

By: albert

albert — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:36:44 +0000

Thanks! Worked like a charm!

By: cheese on fedora

cheese on fedora — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:24:11 +0000

[...] Thankfully, everything else works just fine. I found a fix for the broadcom wireless adapter at cenolan.com First of course you’ll need to install support for the RPM Fusion Repository. su -c 'rpm [...]

By: Jannik

Jannik — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:14:11 +0000

Oh, there is a guide for fedora 11 too.. Sorry, than this is the wrong place for my question. I ask again in the other blog.

By: Jannik

Jannik — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:34:45 +0000

Hi, I installed the package from the rpmfusion repository but it doesn't work. I tried to create /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-alias.conf with "alias wlan0 wl" but it doesn't work.
What can I do now? =/
thanks

By: the brook :: Broadcom STA driver in Fedora 11

the brook :: Broadcom STA driver in Fedora 11 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:04:23 +0000

[...] you would just enable the RPMfusion repo and follow the instructions here (or here). Now I don’t know whether its a change in the broadcom-wl package contents, or just [...]

By: Brian B

Brian B — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:46:35 +0000

Holw cow.... finally! Thank you soooo much for this post! After several hours of trying so many different things suggested by other people, this is the only one that worked (after I rebooted, it worked perfectly). I also had the problem where the device wasn't even listed, but this did the trick by adding it and making it work! Thanks so much, again!

By: Erdal YAZICIOGLU

Erdal YAZICIOGLU — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:11:09 +0000

Hello Chris

After the tutorial, my wireless works fine but I can not connect to WPA secured network. On the other hand, I can connect to WEP network without problem. Is there a way to solve this issue?

By: neeraj gupta

neeraj gupta — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:51:50 +0000

over the weekend, I reinstalled the software. So the wireless does connect. But there are still some problems:

1. I do not see the network connections list - I seee eth0 for wired connection, but no eth1 or something for wireless connection.

2. The speed of wireless connection is extremely slow. In windows my wireless speed is fine - I can get 150kb/sec or more for downloads. But in Linux, I am consistently getting just about 20 - 30kb/sec. So the downloads on linux are extremely slow.

Any help is appreciated. I have FC10 installed and update to latest kernel and other packages.

my wireless card is BCM4322

Thanks

Neeraj

By: neeraj gupta

neeraj gupta — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:24:05 +0000

i have HPdv6-1030, broadcom bcm4322 card.

After installing FC10, the wireless card was not seen in the devices.
I followed the steps outlined. Everything ran without errors.

I did the reboot and now the wireless card is in the list of hardware devices.
But it is not active. I cannot activate it as it is not in the network manager list for activations.

I would appreciate any help in what to do next.

Thanks
neeraj

By: sangjin

sangjin — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:35:20 +0000

Nice TiS.
Thanks. It works well on my laptop.

By: Trung An

Trung An — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:22:03 +0000

Thank you so much, TiS. I finally got my wifi working

By: TiS

TiS — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:44:26 +0000

If something does not work, there's also one more thing.

I've got Dell Vostro 1500. I installed driver packages... does not work. I dig on my system and what discovered:
New wl driver conflicts with ssb driver (it's even on its blacklist). BUT - ssb is needed for b44 driver, currently in use by my WIRED connection.

What I did: it occurrs (for now at least :) ) that everything works if the wl driver is loaded before ssb driver (I think it's because ssb driver wants to also manage my wireless card and uses some werid driver instead of wl). So I created a file in modprobe.d named ssb-and-wl
Contents:

install ssb /sbin/modprobe wl; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ssb;

In short, it ensures that IF the ssb driver is loaded, wl driver is also loaded and loaded before.
It might be not a beautiful solution, but... hey, it worked! :)

By: devros

devros — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:48:43 +0000

FYI, I just updated to kernel 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64 and the wireless stopped working. Reverting back to 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.x86_64 fixed it.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:48:42 +0000

@Simon Lewis - either just reboot (it should load the module automatically on next boot) or issue the modprobe command as root and not as a standard user.

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Skinkerull.com | Mutterns bursdagspresang — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:16:15 +0000

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