Wireless - bcm43xx

[evilmark]

Alright, I've installed ndiswrapper, used it to install the apropriate drivers, used rmmod to remove bcm43xx, and have also blacklisted bcm43xx. However, my wireles card still does not show up in network managment, and the output of /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l still shows bcm43xx as the driver being used, even though it has been removed AND blacklisted. What am I doing wrong?

[MrHappy]

Hi evilmark

Welcome to the forum

I suggest having a read of http://fedoramobile.org/wireless it's got an article for Broadcom wireless support in Fedora.

Go for the native driver instead of ndiswrapper.

MrHappy

[evilmark]

Let me clarify, bcm43xx does not work with my hardware, the appropriate driver is bcmwl5. I've done everything i've read to do to get it to work with ndiswrapper, but /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l still says that an alternate driver named bcm43xx is being used instead. The wirless card also does not show up in the network managment console. Since bcm43xx has been both removed and blacklisted, why is it still being used? If it helps, according to Windows XP my wireless card is a Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter. Thanks.

[MrHappy]

Hi

/sbin/lspci

or

/sbin/lsusb

will tell you what Fedora sees your wireless device as.

Can you post the line with broadcom in it along with the version of Fedora that you are using, that will help us identify what to do next.

MrHappy