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    Fedora Dell XPS M1330

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by drinster, Mar 10, 2009.

  1. drinster

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    Hello and HRMN help please as am new to Linux and recently installed Fedora 10 on a DELL XPS M1330 Laptop. JUST CANT GET WI-FI TO WORK!!!
    Did the: /sbin/lspci and came up with this.

    03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
    03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
    03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
    09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
    0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

    I first installed the ndiswrapper using this command : # yum install kmod-ndiswrapper and that was fined.

    Went to dell web-site and downloaded the driver for broadcom using the command:

    $ wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE

    unzip followed by saving it to home dir...

    Type the following command: cd /home/username/broadcom/

    # ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
    the driver bcmwl5 successfully installed
    Type in this command and am not really sure what they do but i think it helps to configure the wi-fi dell driver.

    # ndiswrapper -m
    # depmod -a
    # modprobe ndiswrapper
    # echo "/sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
    # echo -e "blacklist bcm43xx\nblacklist ssb" >> /etc/modeprobe.d/ blacklist.

    Rebooted the computer and checked if the driver was installed using # ndiswrapper -l and came up with bcmwl5 : invalid driver! :mad:

    Just haven't a clue of what to do, so i automatically re-install ndiswrapper and started again with the same error bcmwl5 : invalid driver!
    Tried other Dell broadcom driver and without any luck.
    I may have hit a dead end, any help and i would be grateful, many thanks!!! :)
     
    drinster, Mar 10, 2009
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