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!![]()
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!!!![]()
Fedora Dell XPS M1330
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by drinster, Mar 10, 2009.