Broadcom wireless

[Black Cat]

Is it possible to use a broadcom wireless card with F15? I can't recall the actual model of the card, but it requires broadcom-wl and the apropriated kmod to work, but I can't find the kmod for the current F15 kernel...

[pkands]

Fedora 15 will use B43 driver and worked fine with mine out of the box.

[hefeweizen]

I'm using Broadcom akmod for my 4313 card. Works well.

[dr.fudd]

if you want to install kmod-wl you have to reference the RPMfusion repositories, there not enabled by default, at least on my installation they are not. then you have to install the correct version for the kernal you are using

[paquete]

Hi there.
I am having a similar problem.

On a fresh Fedora 15 installation, a Broadcom 4313 would not work out of the box.
I do not know what packages to install from rpmfusion (if any) neither the version of them.
Right now I am sort of confused. I would be much appreciated if you could help me.

Thank you.

[hefeweizen]

yum install akmod-wl

[davidd]

I'm using Broadcom akmod for my 4313 card. Works well.

And my 4318 works out of the box, too. If only I could keep KWalletManager at bay! I turn it off, but it keeps coming back to interfere. I wish I could uninstall it, but it's nowhere to be found when I try to do that.

[bbfuller]

Hello davidd

If you go into NetworkManager and choose to "Manage Connections", you will see an option in the configuration window for "Other".

IIf you follow that, there is an option in the new window called "Connection Secrets". There, you can choose to keep your wireless keys in an unencrypted file. After that KWallet won't bother you over them again.

You will have to enter the wireless key the first time you reconnect though.

[davidd]

Hello davidd

If you go into NetworkManager and choose to "Manage Connections", you will see an option in the configuration window for "Other".

IIf you follow that, there is an option in the new window called "Connection Secrets". There, you can choose to keep your wireless keys in an unencrypted file. After that KWallet won't bother you over them again.

You will have to enter the wireless key the first time you reconnect though.

Thanks, bbfuller. I saw that and almost selected that option, but I was determined to find a way to render KWallet impotent. Although my problems with KWallet are not over, I'll give that a try, now that you have reminded me. :doh: Frankly, I find KWallet much more of a problem than a help. It tries to take over whether you decline the offer to store passwords or not. Reminds me of a virus.

Thanks,
David

[taytong888]

Hello,

I have F15 Beta KDE 32-bit. Tried akmod-wl (version 5.60.48.36-2.fc14.i686, repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide) via yumex but it did not work. What work for me are b43-fwcutter and b43-openfwwf. In Network Manager I also had to set interface =wlan0.

Hopefully once F15 is released in May 2011 akmod-wl will work!

[stoat]

What work for me are b43-fwcutter and b43-openfwwf.

Hopefully once F15 is released in May 2011 akmod-wl will work! If you are lucky enough to have one of the four Broadcom chipsets supported by b43-openfwwf, then your device will "just work" as the saying goes. So if that's working okay for you, then you can stop worrying about broadcom-wl in Fedora 15.

P.S.: BTW, there is no role for b43-fwcutter when your adapter is using b43-openfwwf. That is used to extract firmware from the proprietary driver file.

[taytong888]

Hi, long time "no see"!

#lspci -nnk

0a:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4329] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Linksys WPC300N v1 Wireless-N Notebook Adapter [1737:0058]
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl, ssb


I always find it nice to use akmod-wl for this old wireless adapter in Fedora. However it's a pain in openSUSE11.3+ because there has been no equivalent ready-to-use firmware; they have broadcom-wl staging driver but it may or may not work depending on the type of kernel in use.
:D

[stoat]

I don't know anything about OpenSUSE, but you could try compiling broadcom-wl from source in OpenSUSE.

[OpenVPN9000]

Add free and non-free rpm fusion repos, then:

yum install broadcom-wl akmod-wl

Worked on my x64 F15 at reboot this morning on an HP Probook 6550b

[jojosilvera]

Add free and non-free rpm fusion repos, then:

yum install broadcom-wl akmod-wl

Worked on my x64 F15 at reboot this morning on an HP Probook 6550b

it says in order to do I have to be root :S what should I do?

[nikita]

I have positive experience with Fedora15+broadcom-wl.

Related output of lspci -vnn:

06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device [144f:7175]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at d3600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-df-ff-ff-05-e8-39
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl

My actions:
1) Remove b43* packages to avoid loading them into kernel.
2) Install akmods and akmod-wl.
3) Execute sudo akmods.
4) Execute sudo modprobe wl.

No need to restart the machine.

[jimbotank]

Add free and non-free rpm fusion repos, then:

yum install broadcom-wl akmod-wl

Worked on my x64 F15 at reboot this morning on an HP Probook 6550b

Great!!
Did an upgrade from F14 to F15 and this ended my wireless connectivity :dis:
But after this command and a boot everything works just fine. :dance:

Thanks!!
Greets
Jimbotank

[exiledhunter6]

it says in order to do I have to be root :S what should I do?

Go to this website and read through this first, it will help. This goes for all broadcom people.

Website: http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt

As far as what it is talking about being root you really should read a little linux 101, I would google that. At any rate I don't want to seem like I'm some great linux person; cause I'm not.

Ok what it means, is that you need to become the root user, this should have been setup during the install of Fedora. I hope you wrote this down, cause I'm not sure how to get to it if you didn't. Go into "terminal" and type the following without the quotes.

"su root" -- The su = switch user and the text after the su is the username, thus "root"

It will prompt you for the password, type it in and then you will be root.

Now I have had no luck installing the repositorys for the drivers from terminal and not sure as to what I am doing wrong, but that is besides the point. just copy and paste the urls found in the website I gave you and in your firefox browser (chrome doesn't know what to do with this) and it will prompt you download and install them, do this and follow the rest of the guide and then reboot and should have wireless.

Note* Go to the bottom of the readme file and follow those directions first, don't try building the module first. The yum install for this driver works great.