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Fedora 17 wireless not working on Dell 1545 Broadcom

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hi, I've just installed a clean install of Fedora 17 on my laptop. I can't seem to even see the wireless option in the network settings. I've updated all the softwares and followed some wireless update tutorials elsewhere but they all result in terminal saying everything is up to date. I don't know what I'm missing.. Help, please? Thanks (HowTos)

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Hi Friends !

Before the update , i did not check whether wireless is working or not . I updated fedora and installed few softwares recently .

I just clicked wireless option under 'network icon' (i think so) at top-right corner , my laptop hangs . To recover from it , i turn off the laptop by pressing the power. I rarely use this but what do i do if i need it . Please help me to fix it ...

Disclaimer: I almost definitely should not be using Linux. I likely lack the general competence needed.

Installed Fedora 17 on an old Dell 1535 which I believe uses the Dell 1379 Wireless Mini-Card which is Broadcom manufactured.

When installation was complete I had no wireless functionality with it informing me that firmware was missing when in Network Settings.

I just installed Fedora as a dual-boot (other OS in Win7) on my Dell Inspiron 1750 and, of course, the wireless card is missing firmware.

The wireless card is called Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN mini-card. When I run lspci on Fedora it says that the card is a BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01).

Hello all. I've been searching for a solution to this problem forever now but I can't seem to find any solution that works. I just installed Fedora 17 and was working on getting the wireless drivers installed. My laptop has a Broadcom BCM4312 network controller (seems to be troublesome for a lot of people).

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Hello, I have a dell inspiron 1545. it has the following: 2.1ghz intel dual core processer 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330 Dell Wireless 1515 Wireless-N Mini-Card creative webcam 4gb of ram

Greetings All,

I am brand spanking new to Fedora 17 (I installed it about 4 hours ago). It is a on a 2011 (8.1) Macbook Pro. I installed off a LiveCD that came with the August issue of Linux Pro Magazine.

Install went fine. II blew away the OSX partition, and the machine is now F17 only.

On first reboot, it said that the wireless was “missing firmware”.

I recently installed Ubuntu 10.4 on my new Dell Studio 1558. After installing the broadcom proprietary driver for my wireless card, the wireless for my laptop worked fine.

I have install 64bit version of Fedora 12 on a new Dell Inspiron 1545 with a Dell 1397 wireless card. It actually uses a Broadcom BCM4312 chip.

I have install the following rpms:

Code: broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-1.fc12.noarch kmod-wl-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64-5.10.91.9.3-3.fc12.11.x86_64 kmod-wl-5.10.91.9.3-3.fc12.11.x86_64 I can't activate the wireless card.