Need help Broadcom 4311

[7heUb3rN00B]

Im running F8 on a compaq f572us. Im looking to get my wireless card working.
I no there are other posts about this issue but i am a complete nooby and they are to confusing to my small mind,
Thank in advance!

[Gnafu the Great]

I would suggest you try searching the forum. Your question has been asked several times, and the answers are out there. You might note I have the exact same laptop as you; I found everything I needed by searching. Try looking for ndiswrapper. Ignore the fwcutter method; it doesn't work with our wireless adapters.

[7heUb3rN00B]

I have ndiswrapper installed but i dont understand on how to get my driver installed, i could only find the vista driver for my card does that matter?

[Gnafu the Great]

I have ndiswrapper installed but i dont understand on how to get my driver installed, i could only find the vista driver for my card does that matter?

I'm pretty sure you'll need the XP driver. The driver for the HP DV6000's wireless will work.

[7heUb3rN00B]

Well after i installed it i noticed in the network setting it had hardware b43. I tried using that it failed. Also i need help with how to install the driver. Or could it be i entered my encryption wrong im using wep 64bit how would i got about entering it.
UPDATE! I got the windows driver for the dv600 now what do i do i think i need to unpaack it but how? and what do i do after?

[Gnafu the Great]

Check out cabextract.

[7heUb3rN00B]

K i got cabextract the exe on my desktop how do i extract it?

[Gnafu the Great]

man cabextract

or

cabextract --help

[7heUb3rN00B]

...... I still dont understand the exe is in my desktop my user is tyler. What command will extract it btw the file is called sp34152.exe

[7heUb3rN00B]

Well can anyone help i would like fully operation laptop :P

[leadgolem]

Try this.cd Desktop
cabextract -d sp34152.exeAlso, take a look at this thread. (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=174321&highlight=broadcom) It has some good info.

[7heUb3rN00B]

Try this.cd Desktop
cabextract -d sp34152.exeAlso, take a look at this thread. (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=174321&highlight=broadcom) It has some good info.
Thanks ill try it out.

[7heUb3rN00B]

Still looking for help!

[7heUb3rN00B]

Still looking for help!
I am 99% shure my wireless card IS WORKING. My promblem is. When you need to enter wep security it say hex 0x whats that mean. My security is wep 64bit. plz help

[SomeDamFool]

If you entered your wep key in the router as hex (hexadecimal), then you need to put 0x in front of your wep key number in network manager (or whatever you use). Enter it like: 0x*********** (no space between 0x and the number.

If you entered your key in the router as ASCII, then don't put 0x in front of your number.

Mike

[7heUb3rN00B]

Thanks ill try it.

[7heUb3rN00B]

Ugh this is getting on my nerves. Ive followed an ndiswrapper guid 2 to be exact one on the ndiswrapper webv site and one on the forums. In each i get ndiswrapper command not found! when trying to install some drivers!.
I do have ndiswrapper installed.

[leadgolem]

Try this in a fresh terminal.su -Then try and follow the guide.
EDIT2: Please note that this is going to change the location of your terminal to /root. If you want to get back to your home folder use the "cd" command followed by where you want to put your terminal in the system. IE: cd /home/username
EDIT: Something else you can do when you get a command not found error.locate commandname
echo $PATHThe variable PATH is where your terminal is looking for commands. locate usually can tell you where a command actually is. If a command is not in your path then you can still use it by typing the full path to it. IE: /sbin/ndiswrapper

[bpierce815]

I also have an F572US and I found that the 4311 ver 2 card in these laptops is supported natively (without using ndiswrapper) in F8. Follow the guide on Fedoraguide.info (http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php/Fedora8#Broadcom_bcm43xx_.28Method_2.29) . I followed these instructions exactly.

If you have ndiswrapper installed, remove it. And remove any mention of b43, bcm43xx, or ssb from the blacklist file:
su -c 'yum -y remove kmod-ndiswrapper'
su -c 'gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist'

* Configure NetworkManager to automatically start - and start the service.
su -c '/sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager on'
su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager start'

* Download and extract the firmware
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2

* Install FWcutter if not already installed
su -c 'yum -y install b43-fwcutter'

* Cut the firmware
cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod
/usr/bin/b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o

* Add the following line so that it can be configured by system-config-network
su -c 'echo "alias wlan0 b43" >> /etc/modprobe.conf'

* Restart NetworkManager
su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager restart'

[Gnafu the Great]

They added support! YES!!!

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43