wireless & fedora

[dreck]

Hello,

I am new too this forum and fedora. I decided to do a test run with FC3-i386, wondering if I would have any troubles with my wireless laptop.
The install was very easy and no problems but internet. The wireless nor land line worked.
I wasn't too suprised, I was figuring I may have troubles.

What my question is should I be having problems and are their any tricks of useful info I might get my hands on.
Basicly a heads up.

I am downloading FC-x86_64 as I type.. And plain to install this for my laptop does have a 64 bit processor:

Mobile AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+
ATI Radeon 9600 64MRAM and 15.4 Widesreen
6 in 1 Digital Media Reader/writer
IEEE 1394 Firewire
4 USB 2.0
512MB DDR333 (PC2700)
80GB HDD
DVD+/-RW
802.11g - 10/100 Mbps Ethernet

Another couple questions I have are:
Does this os support my media reader?
And did I miss something during setup for video... I only had 800x600 & 600x400?

Any feedback is welcomed

Thanks!

[james_in_denver]

What is your Wireless card make and model????

is it built in? or PCMCIA? or usb????

[cruiseoveride]

yea u left out the most important info
wats the name of the companies that make the wifi and the modem
eg, intel pro wireless
prism54
etc

[dreck]

Sorry, I was half asleep. hehe

It is built in "VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-11]"

Guess I should have studied up a bit more, but was one of those last minute things I do out of being bored.

I got all the cds downloaded and plain to read up tonite and try to reinstall FC-x86_64 tomar sometime.

Thanks for the help,

dreck

[cruiseoveride]

wat is the chipset of the wifi card
type
lspci
in the console
and paste the output into the forum

[dreck]

I must be doing something wrong?

[root@localhost dreck]# lspci
bash: lspci: command not found

[Heon2574]

Originally Posted by dreck

I must be doing something wrong?

[root@localhost dreck]# lspci
bash: lspci: command not found

/sbin/lspci

[dreck]

[root@localhost dreck]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8t800 AGP] Host Bridge
(rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South]
00:0c.0 Network contoller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless
LAN Contoller (rev 03)
00:10.0 USB Controller: Via Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Contoller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: Via Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Contoller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: Via Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: Via Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/
VT823x/A/C/ PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/
A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Contoller (rev 50)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97
Modem] (rev 80)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] 9rev
74)
00:13.0 Firewire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host 
Contoller (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host Bridge: Advanced Micor Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host Bridge: Advanced Micor Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host Bridge: Advanced Micor Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host Bridge: Advanced Micor Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility
Radeon 9600 M10]

[cruiseoveride]

00:0c.0 Network contoller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Contoller (rev 03)

thats the name of ur wifi card
sorry man, the kernel does not support this particular Broadcom Corp,
but people on the net have got it working with ndiswrapper
search for that on the net,
in short its a program that will let u use ur wifi card using windows drivers,
give it a go, people have got it working


http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-23720.html

[dreck]

Thanks, I will read up on this ndiswrapper...

You'll have been very helpful.

Thank you,

dreck

[Heon2574]

Originally Posted by dreck

Thanks, I will read up on this ndiswrapper...

You'll have been very helpful.

Thank you,

dreck

Yes, read up on ndiswrapper. I have the same wireless chipset too and this helped me out.
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthr...hlight=bcm4306

[koko8108]

I'm new to Fedora and just install Core 3 on my HP laptop - LOVE IT. My question is which wireless card will work with core three. I have built in wireless and know for sure it does not work with fedora.

Thanks,


Louis

[cruiseoveride]

we cant help u if u dont tell us wat the card is called
read this forum from the top please