fedora 6 wireless card

[mjr]

ok i have install fc6 onto my computer fresh clean
i have a Dell(TM) TrueMobile(TM) 1300 802.11b/g MiniPCI Wireless Card
when i went into the network gui app i found and had a driver for my wireless card but when i activated the device it says


Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present. Check cable?


could it be a bug with the driver or am did i configure somthing wrong

if it is a bug should i report and then in nswrapper to make my driver



ps: i know that the card is on because the light that say the card is on is on

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE AND SORRY FOR SPELLING AND IF YOU NEED ANY INFO JUST WRITE A QUESTION

[mweaver]

I have a Dell TrueMobile 1300 MiniPCI Wireless card as well and I couldn't get it to work. Are you trying the bcm43xx drivers or ndiswrapper? I ended up going with ndiswrapper in the end simply because I didn't have enough time to figure it out and I needed the card working as soon as I could and it works fine.

[mjr]

ok i written that post before i installed nsdwrapper

i cant install it i did all the module work right and it wouldn't install

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.28]# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.28]# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.28]#

[mjr]

I have a Dell TrueMobile 1300 MiniPCI Wireless card as well and I couldn't get it to work. Are you trying the bcm43xx drivers or ndiswrapper? I ended up going with ndiswrapper in the end simply because I didn't have enough time to figure it out and I needed the card working as soon as I could and it works fine.

you are using fedora 6 right because i can get my card working in fedora 5 with ndiswrapper

[mweaver]

Yeah, I'm using Fedora Core 6 and I got ndiswrapper working with my card. But I installed it with yum from the livna repository (http://rpm.livna.org). It's not the newest version though.

[mjr]

ok i have ndiswrapper working


but not the card now i do not see why cards are not working

now when i ran the installer with the sys in the same folder f on niswrapper it said driver confliction the driver is already installed

so if really wanted to try i could just delete the preisntalled one

i dont fully know if the card is even detected and why it is not working is there a bug i dont know


i had just install fedora 6 on my other labtop

there both dells they have brodcom card but not the same but fedora network gui finds them and has both driver pre installed

the probem is that if they are there why isnt it working :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[tweston]

My advice is to forget ndiswrapper and use the broadcom driver - just follow this:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=115572
Worked quick and easy for my Acer with broadcom wireless using FC6 :)