Comments on: Installing Broadcom Wireless STA Driver in Fedora 11

By: Bit101

Bit101 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:10:13 +0000

@rogvi Update your BIOS to AO3, that fixed it for me.
It seems that the AO2 BIOS keeps saying that the killswitch is on, even when it's off.

By: dave

dave — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:50:43 +0000

i did the exact steps up top, and now my computer doesnt seem to be finding my wireless nic at all. im not too familiar with fedora. any help would be appreciated.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:01:29 +0000

When i try yum install kmod-wl
i get this error:
error b43 conflict with broadcom-wl

By: Noelia

Noelia — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:37:51 +0000

Thanks!!! after a long time i've been able to use my wifi conection with Fedora... goodbye vista!!

By: David Lee

David Lee — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:08:36 +0000

It works perfectly on HP Pavilion dv5-1235dx.
But I have to restart the NetworkManager.

By: rogvi

rogvi — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:32:25 +0000

Broadcom once more.

I find it difficult to get our new Dell Vostro 1520 working on wireless on our prefered distro F10,F11/32 or F11/64.
It performs alright on other Live distro.
When installing F11 I made sure not to install any driver at all.
I am not in these commands, but as can be seen below I have been searching. What more to look for I do not know.

$ '/sbin/lspci -nn | grep -i -e network'
0e:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

rpm -qa | grep wl
kmod-wl-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64-5.10.91.9-4.fc11.2.x86_64
broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9-1.fc11.noarch
kmod-wl-5.10.91.9-4.fc11.2.x86_64

lsmod | grep wl
wl 1282052 0
lib80211 6916 2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl

/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf is ok.

# 'iwlist eth1 scan' displays the whole neighborhood

# iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Nickname:"vostro.localdomai"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
pan0 no wireless extensions.

Network Configuration: No profile, but Hardware is present-('iwlist eth1 scan' is ok!).

Manual setup and activation of wireless:
/sbin/ifup: configuration for eth1 not found.
Usage: ifup

While determining ".....eth1" at booting, I can see the warning:
WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
Same as with modprobe wl and others.

And I have rebooted over and over again.

Is there any cure for love?

Regards.

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:45:45 +0000

These instructions worked perfectly for my Dell 1440 laptop. One strange thing I observe though, in
System -> Administration -> Network -> Hardware
the wireless device is listed as eth1, whereas it should be wlan0. Not a problem though, since it works well.

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no 1024 resolution on 10v with Ubuntu 9.04 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:41:43 +0000

[...] Today, 07:41 PM 9.10 seems a completely wrong choice. The video display is blurred. So I choose to use FC11 ad follow this post: Installing Broadcom Wireless STA Driver in Fedora 11 | cenolan.com [...]

By: Paulo

Paulo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:41:52 +0000

I can see all wireless network around (including mine) but I still can't connect. I'm using WPA1-PSK Personal. Every time I try to connect the Network Manager keeps asking my password. Well, I really know my password, so why I can't connect? :(

Here my results, hope anyone can help me.

lsmod | grep wl:
wl 1274884 0
lib80211 6356 2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl

rpm -qa | grep wl:

kmod-wl-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64-5.10.91.9-3.fc11.6.x86_64
iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-1.fc11.noarch
broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9-1.fc11.noarch
iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-1.fc11.noarch
kmod-wl-5.10.91.9-3.fc11.6.x86_64
iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-1.fc11.noarch

By: infernosoft

infernosoft — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:37:05 +0000

I followed this tutorial, but when I click on the NetworkManager icon, the wireless is disabled, and when I want to check it to enable it, the "Enable Wireless" checkbox is grayed out :(

anyone know what's wrong?

By: Andy Jefferson

Andy Jefferson — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:56:46 +0000

The problem with the procedure (nicely, thanks!) here is that the only connection that I have is wireless: no ethernet.
So I need to first download all the required rpm's, and then install them manually...
Could you document this too?

So far I do have two RPMS:
rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
Is that all I need to install?

Thanks.
Andy

By: van

van — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:49:02 +0000

hi, thanks a lot it worked great!

By: quincy

quincy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:56:14 +0000

I am running a hp dv9608nr.

By: quincy

quincy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:55:04 +0000

thanks for this, it worked fine, saved me lots of time !!!!! you rock !!!

By: Uglješa Erceg

Uglješa Erceg — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:37:28 +0000

Worked like a charm on Dell Inspiron 1525.

All worked after step 3: yum install kmod-wl and rebooting. After logging I had functional wireless and all networks successfully detected.

Thank You for the tutorial.

By: David M

David M — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:45:56 +0000

Excellent tutorial... followed the instructions and everything worked great!!! Kudos to the writer, I have looked everywhere to no avail but this worked flawlessly...

Thank you...

David

By: bob doncaster

bob doncaster — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:35:32 +0000

Just upgraded fedora 11 from 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586 to 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586 and my broadcom BCM4312 wlan now not working. It seems the wl driver is no longer recognised. yum update says 'nothing to do'. - Help!

By: Felipe

Felipe — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:33:27 +0000

Thanks Daniel for the link.

I updated today my system from a long vacation and what a surprise, the wireless was gone. I tried the normal method and it did not work out.

However I download the test rpm and it is up an running again. Cheers

By: Leonel G. G.

Leonel G. G. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:34:59 +0000

Thanks a lot, my wireless connection is now working on my Dell inspiron 1525 with a broadcom hw.

Regards.

By: Majesty

Majesty — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:46:26 +0000

erm I am not sure but I think I saw somewhere that kernel-pae-devel is needed to make BCM4312 work.
Made my Lenovo G410 wifi working the following way:
1. Install kmod-wl - wireless not working, no device in Network Configuraton.
2. Install wl-kmod (during which kernel-pae-devel has been installed) - wireless work like a charm.
FYI my output of rpm -qa | grep wl
broadcom-wl
akmod-wl
iwl5000
iwl4965
kmod-wl
iwl3945
kmod-wl...PAE

(sorry for missing other part of the output, was typing this from my Windows PC)