minaite
30th January 2011, 07:40 PM
Thank you Stoat of your loooooong guide.
But still, as unfortunate many times with these linux-guides, something important is missing.
I installed Fedora 14 on my netbook with broadcom wlan and everything else with Fedora 14 installation went perfect ... but I only have wlan net connection and 3G mobile data. So I was on an island with Fedora with no internet connection.
But I had other OS in my netbook, with right out of the bow working wlan and internet connection. So googling leaded me here. I read your loooong guide and with it I found out that I have Broadcom BCM4312 in my netbook. But no working internet connection in Fedora to be able to add extra repository to get those Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA drivers (broadcom-wl) from rpmfusion.org.
Your guide says "If the computer does not have an Internet connection, then all of the packages mentioned can be downloaded to another computer and manually transferred to the hard drive of the wireless computer."
So I tried to browse http://rpmfusion.org/ and links in table "Browse available packages" at the end of that page... but no link opened... they just timed out.
Then googling more. And I found this excellent guide to guide me to install those drivers
http://fedoraunity.org/mobile/fc-wireless/broadcom-linux-sta-driver
That guide is short, but it gave me exact guides what and how to to (excluding that I figured out myself where to obtain those 3 driver rpm insstallation packages of Broadcom for Fedora 14 - while that guide only mention Fedora 12 and 13).
So to obtain those installation rpm packages from rpmfusion mirror
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/kmod-wl-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686-5.60.48.36-2.fc14.1.i686.rpm
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/kmod-wl-5.60.48.36-2.fc14.1.i686.rpm
And to install them in Fedora 14 with
rpm -ivh *rpm
Then "modprobe wl" (or reboot) and wlan should work.
So, Stoat, could you take a look at that guide and maybe write some missing guidance in your guide?
Often one just needs to know ALL of what to do, and not so much information why to do so.
I think that some attitude change just needs to be done with linux offerings and these unnecessary problems to linux newbies. Networking and internet is so vital and important area nowadays. If everything else goes just fine but network and internet connection remains hard problem to user to fix, it just turns people off with linux. So maybe including some not free drivers in the installation media, like some distros do, for the sake of keeping up appearances with newbies, interested on linux desktops and to get internet onnection working right out ot the box like everything else with Fedora 14 seems to be capable right out of the box : ) It's the user experience that counts, it's the first impression that counts - and it just needst to be good to obtain good Fedora relationship to start like love at a first sight. And in war and love, everything "good" is ok.
But still, as unfortunate many times with these linux-guides, something important is missing.
I installed Fedora 14 on my netbook with broadcom wlan and everything else with Fedora 14 installation went perfect ... but I only have wlan net connection and 3G mobile data. So I was on an island with Fedora with no internet connection.
But I had other OS in my netbook, with right out of the bow working wlan and internet connection. So googling leaded me here. I read your loooong guide and with it I found out that I have Broadcom BCM4312 in my netbook. But no working internet connection in Fedora to be able to add extra repository to get those Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA drivers (broadcom-wl) from rpmfusion.org.
Your guide says "If the computer does not have an Internet connection, then all of the packages mentioned can be downloaded to another computer and manually transferred to the hard drive of the wireless computer."
So I tried to browse http://rpmfusion.org/ and links in table "Browse available packages" at the end of that page... but no link opened... they just timed out.
Then googling more. And I found this excellent guide to guide me to install those drivers
http://fedoraunity.org/mobile/fc-wireless/broadcom-linux-sta-driver
That guide is short, but it gave me exact guides what and how to to (excluding that I figured out myself where to obtain those 3 driver rpm insstallation packages of Broadcom for Fedora 14 - while that guide only mention Fedora 12 and 13).
So to obtain those installation rpm packages from rpmfusion mirror
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/kmod-wl-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686-5.60.48.36-2.fc14.1.i686.rpm
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/kmod-wl-5.60.48.36-2.fc14.1.i686.rpm
And to install them in Fedora 14 with
rpm -ivh *rpm
Then "modprobe wl" (or reboot) and wlan should work.
So, Stoat, could you take a look at that guide and maybe write some missing guidance in your guide?
Often one just needs to know ALL of what to do, and not so much information why to do so.
I think that some attitude change just needs to be done with linux offerings and these unnecessary problems to linux newbies. Networking and internet is so vital and important area nowadays. If everything else goes just fine but network and internet connection remains hard problem to user to fix, it just turns people off with linux. So maybe including some not free drivers in the installation media, like some distros do, for the sake of keeping up appearances with newbies, interested on linux desktops and to get internet onnection working right out ot the box like everything else with Fedora 14 seems to be capable right out of the box : ) It's the user experience that counts, it's the first impression that counts - and it just needst to be good to obtain good Fedora relationship to start like love at a first sight. And in war and love, everything "good" is ok.