Hi everyone,
So I recently installed Fedora 16 on my Alienware M17x and have been having problems getting the wireless to work. This is my second Linux install and I am learning quickly, but I cannot seem to solve this problem. It is now a dual boot system and my wireless works fine on my windows install. So first things first, my wireless card is a
Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless controller
I have been pouring over FAQs, HOW TOs and forums posts for the past few days and still cannot get it to work, the problem is as follows. After a clean install, my network manager tells me that the firmware is missing, so i updated my kernel and everything else via yum. Then, from various sites on the internet decided that I needed to install the broadcom-wl package. After yum - ing this and its dependency kmod-wl and rebooting my system, the network manager no longer sees my card at all, it is just gone. So I have been going through all the trouble shooting steps i could find, removing conflicting drivers, blacklisting conflicting modules and have had no luck at all, hence I now ask for you all's help. Let me know if you need more info or anything at all that might help me. Thanks in advance.
Issues with wireless card firmware
Linear Mode
