Re: unable to get Broadcom 4312 loaded F 18

2013-01-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi Zoltan, Thanks very much! I am happy to say that I got this resolved by following your detailed instructions! Thanks very much!! I do wonder if the problem with the broadcom-wl version in RPMfusions non-free is that the broadcom-wl is for version 5.100.82 and not 5.100.138. Of course, I don'

Re: unable to get Broadcom 4312 loaded F 18

2013-01-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks very much, Zoltan! Does this mean that I should yum erase broadcom-wl and kmod-wl first (these I got from rpmfusion-nonfree)? Thanks again! Ranjan On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:57:03 +0100 Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Just solved the problem. You should load the b43 driver. > > modprobe b43 > then

Re: unable to get Broadcom 4312 loaded F 18

2013-01-16 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi Ranjan, Forgot to mention - be sure that you have not an subversion of 4312. Use this to see it - > lspci -vnn -d 14e4 More here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices Zoltan 2013/1/17 Zoltan Hoppar : > Just solved the problem. You should load the b43 driver. > > mo

Re: unable to get Broadcom 4312 loaded F 18

2013-01-16 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Just solved the problem. You should load the b43 driver. modprobe b43 then you'll see in dmesg that missing the right firmware. Install some more packages that is not included to F18 by default: rfkill, wget, b43-openfwwf, b43-tools. (Why has been wget excluded from package list, no clue) Ge

unable to get Broadcom 4312 loaded F 18

2013-01-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have tried to get wifi going on a Dell Latitude E5400 with the Broadcom 4312 chipset. I did the following: Installed broadcom-wl from rpmfusion non-free. (This installed broadcom-wl and the dependency kmod-wl.) Rebooted, but "nothing" happened. So, following this page http://forums.fedor