Broadcom / Feodra 11

HMSS013 · #1 4th July 2009, 11:56 PM

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

has always worked for me... but that hasn't been the case with Fedora 11...

HMSS013 · #2 5th July 2009, 12:07 AM

Fresh Install... Wired Network Fully Functional... RPM Fusion Properly Enabled.

the command resolves... Network Manager confirms that the device is not present upon reboot.

NoEffex · #3 5th July 2009, 02:16 AM

I think you have to install some sort of kmod.

yum install kmod-wl

HMSS013 · #4 5th July 2009, 03:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NoEffex

I think you have to install some sort of kmod.

yum install kmod-wl

that kmod installs via dependency in such case

***Firewing1*** · #5 5th July 2009, 04:00 AM

What card do you have? Are you sure it's compatible with the wl drivers?

wvn · #6 5th July 2009, 07:42 AM

how about b43-cutter?

bbfuller · #7 5th July 2009, 10:31 AM

Hello HMSS013

It should happen that installing broadcom-wl pulls in kmod-wl as a dependency. I'm just not sure that it does.

Try:

Code:

yum install kmod-wl

and see what happens then.

If it doesn't work, post back the model of the card from the output of:

Code:

/sbin/lspci

Be careful of jumping to b43. It covers part of the broadcom range while broadcom-wl covers another part. There appears to be one card that they both support though.

***Dangermouse*** · #8 5th July 2009, 11:22 AM

Quote:

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

try using
yum install wl-kmod that will insure all the deps, as there was a problem recently where not a deps were installed but i think this is fixed now, but thats the way i install it anyway.