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Install wireless driver in Fedora 15

  • 17-06-2011 11:01AM
    #1
    JavaBeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭


    hey, how can I install wireless driver in fedora 15

    lspci 
    04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

    its sta broadcom afaik, thats what displays when i install in ubuntu , which has a prepackaged driver in its repo, easy peasy

    but im a bit stumped in Fedora

    thanks in advance
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Comments

  • #2
    Dun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭Dun


    Get a copy of the windows driver and use ndiswrapper to install it. It can be done through the command line, or with a gui tool.


  • #3
    JavaBeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭JavaBeans


    cheers, ya I know of ndiswrapper,
    but was more hoping someone could show me how to compile and build from source for my driver :D


  • #4
    Dun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭Dun


    Do you have the source? Usually it's just a matter of 
    tar -xvzf source-code.tar.gz
cd source-code/
./configure
make
sudo make install


  • #5
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    OP, did you get this to work?

    It should have been as easy as adding the rpmfusion repositories, and installing broadcom-wl, e.g.
    su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

su -c 'yum -y install broadcom-wl'


  • #6
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    syklops wrote: »
    OP, did you get this to work?

    It should have been as easy as adding the rpmfusion repositories, and installing broadcom-wl, e.g.
    su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

su -c 'yum -y install broadcom-wl'


    That should work. No need to be faffing about with ndiswrapper.


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