Wi-Fi card not detected

Tidey · #1 16th August 2012, 05:08 AM

I'm having trouble enabling the wireless adapter on my Acer after installing Fedora.

Here's my card's info:

Code:

Broadcom Corporation Netlink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)

I'm using Fedora 17.

Any insight on how to solve this or where to find more information is truly appreciated! Thanks!

solo2101 · #2 16th August 2012, 05:31 AM

you will need to enable rpmfusion repo

http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

then install the drivers

Code:

yum install kmod-wl

bbfuller · #3 16th August 2012, 09:15 AM

Hello Tidey

The card you quote is a wired ethernet device, not wireless:

Quote:

http://www.broadcom.com/products/Eth...llers/BCM57785

The kmod-wl solution may work if you have a broadcom wireless device, but it doesn't work with all of those.

You might try posting back the full results of:

Code:

lspci

to see if we can find what the card actually is. What we are looking for is some other ethernet/network device. If one doesn't turn up in that listing, try:

Code:

lsusb

Although that's for USB devices, there have been instances where those have been fixed directly to the motherboard.

Tidey · #4 16th August 2012, 04:36 PM

That explains why I was finding conflicting information. I was searching for the wrong thing.

Code:

Network Controller:  Broadcom Corporation BCM43227 802.11b/g/n

Once more, thank you for helping me work this out

solo2101 · #5 16th August 2012, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bbfuller

Hello Tidey

The card you quote is a wired ethernet device, not wireless:

oh yeah... I didn't saw that... I guess I assume that you had a broadcom wireless adapter.

Tidey · #6 16th August 2012, 05:05 PM

Solo's suggestion worked. Thank you both very much.