wireless

[sajadfedorafrum]

in the name of god
hello
i have a dell inspiron 1545 laptop and with its registered ubuntu the wireless works correctly but now i installed fedora11 and does not find wirelesses.
maybe i must install any drivers?
what i must to do?
valhamdolelah.

[stoat]

Originally Posted by sajadfedorafrum

...with...ubuntu the wireless works correctly but now i installed fedora11 and does not find wirelesses.

A very common tale.

maybe i must install any drivers?
what i must to do?

The first step is always to identify the chipset used by the wireless card. That will in turn determine the driver.

lspci -nn | grep -i -e network -e wireless
lsusb

One of those may give a result that will be helpful and lead to the next step. Maybe. Maybe not.

[sajadfedorafrum]

in the name of god
hello and thanks .
this is the output of it in output.txt.
also when i want ot create new wireless connection it gives this error :
Distribution: Fedora release 11 (Leonidas)
Gnome Release: 2.26.1 2009-04-29 (Red Hat, Inc)
BugBuddy Version: 2.26.0

System: Linux 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:28:22 EDT 2009 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10601901
Selinux: Enforcing
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Nodoka
Icon Theme: Fedora
GTK+ Modules: canberra-gtk-module, pk-gtk-module, gnomebreakpad

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0



----------- .xsession-errors ---------------------
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-biEfjg/socket
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-biEfjg/socket.ssh
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/sajad/.config/metacity/sessions/10a0831f31f677846125708988841048800000021400023.ms : Failed to open file '/home/sajad/.config/metacity/se
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
** (nautilus:2287): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
** (nm-connection-editor:2689): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wireless: ssid
**
ERROR:nm-connection-list.c:744:add_done_cb: code should not be reached
** (nm-connection-editor:2746): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wireless: ssid
**
ERROR:nm-connection-list.c:744:add_done_cb: code should not be reached
--------------------------------------------------


if it is possible please explain me about the command you have said.
thanks.
valhamdolelah.

[stoat]

Originally Posted by sajadfedorafrum's output.txt file

0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

That Broadcom chipset is well-known and discussed often here. To use that chipset in Fedora, you need to install a driver for it. The new Broadcom 802.11 STA Linux driver (aka broadcom-wl) is very popular for it in Fedora. It is available in source form from Broadcom and in a yum-installable binary version available from RPM Fusion (very popular). If you can connect to the Internet by wire even temporarily, then it is a simple matter to install the RPM Fusion version with yum.

First, install the RPM Fusion repositories...

su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm 
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Then, if you have the i586 or x86_64 kernel...

su
yum install kmod-wl

Or if you have the i686 PAE kernel...

su
yum install kmod-wl-PAE

To find out what kernel is running...

uname -r

If you cannot connect to the Internet by wire to use yum to install this driver, then it is still possible to install it while offline. You need to download the three files you will need from RPM Fusion and somehow get them on your hard drive to manually install them with the rpm command. You need...

1. The common kmod-wl or kmod-wl-PAE (depending on the kernel)
2. The kernel-specific kmod-wl
3. broadcom-wl

After the driver has been installed, reboot or restart NetworkManager. Then look in the NetworkManager panel applet for a list of available networks. Find yours in the list and connect to it.

[sajadfedorafrum]

thanks i would quickly do it i cant access to internet directly by my laptop but i can download them and if i can i would install them.
thanks

[stoat]

Originally Posted by sajadfedorafrum

...but i can download them and if i can i would install them.

I just noticed your kernel in your other post...

Originally Posted by sajadfedorafrum

System: Linux 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:28:22 EDT 2009 i686

Here are the exact three files you need if you have no connection to the Internet to install with yum...

1. kmod-wl-PAE-5.10.79.10-2.fc11.9.i686.rpm
2. kmod-wl-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE-5.10.79.10-2.fc11.9.i686.rpm
3. broadcom-wl-5.10.79.10-2.fc11.noarch.rpm

Download them somehow. Copy them to a directory on your hard drive somehow. Open a terminal, cd to that directory, and...

su
rpm -Uvh *.rpm

After that rpm command successfully completes, you should reboot or restart NetworkManager. Then look in the NetworkManager panel applet for a list of available networks. Find yours in the list and connect to it.

If it all goes well and the wireless starts working, don't forget to install the RPM Fusion repos as I mentioned above. That will be important for your broadcom-wl driver to be updated along with the kernel when you update the system.

[sajadfedorafrum]

in the name of god
salam
i tried to install the sources you suggested to me but it said :need to install the other package .for each
of them i had tried this but takes this error .at last i access a network and install them.
thanks for your helps .my friends who work with ubuntu said me that i must work with ubuntu that fedora because working with fedora on laptop is hard but now i am very happy .
thanks for your helps.
valhamdolelah.

[stoat]

I installed Ubuntu on my Thinkpad just to see what everybody has been yammering about. It's nice. Highly polished. Probably great for the huddled masses. But Fedora 11 is the best Fedora ever to come along IMO. Fedora is still my number one system.

[Nokia]

Originally Posted by stoat

I installed Ubuntu on my Thinkpad just to see what everybody has been yammering about. It's nice. Highly polished. Probably great for the huddled masses. But Fedora 11 is the best Fedora ever to come along IMO. Fedora is still my number one system.

My thoughts exactly...

[Nokia]

Originally Posted by sajadfedorafrum

in the name of god
salam
i tried to install the sources you suggested to me but it said :need to install the other package .for each
of them i had tried this but takes this error .at last i access a network and install them.
thanks for your helps .my friends who work with ubuntu said me that i must work with ubuntu that fedora because working with fedora on laptop is hard but now i am very happy .
thanks for your helps.
valhamdolelah.

We need full error output.

[stoat]

Originally Posted by Nokia

We need full error output.

I think that was when sajadfedorafrum attempted to download and manually install the three broadcom-wl files from RPM Fusion. It would be interesting, but probably not necessary now though...

Originally Posted by sajadfedorafrum

.at last i access a network and install them.

[Nokia]

Ah...OK then