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jayfitzpatrick
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April 21st, 2008 09:00
Broadcom BCM4318 on Inspiron 530s
Hi all..
Having loads of fun trying to get my Wireless running on my new Desktop under FC8.
I have used the following link http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/How_To_Install_Your_Broadcom_BCM4318_Using_Ndiswrapper in an attempt to get the card recognized and have used the FW Cutters all to no avail (I get as far as iwlist being able to see my access point but not connecting - all security has been removed from the access point for the duration of the testing) and was wondering if anyone has managed to get one of these cards to run under linux and what drivers they used to do so? (I am onto my 6th revision of these drivers and have just downloaded Dell_multi-device_A17_R174291.exe to try again tonight!)
Any advice / help would be appreciated
Jay
jayfitzpatrick
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Posted April 30th, 2008 19:00
I have just bought a new netgear based usb wireless dongle and am currently burning the latest version of Mythdora so will give that a go first (I am just so over dealing with broadcom cards, had one in my HP lap and the exact same rubbish)
thanks a mill for the link, will keep that for later!!
Jay
PhillyFloyd
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Posted April 30th, 2008 22:00
Yeah if it isn't a LAN NIC most of the BCM wifi cards are just rubbish anyway (IMHO)
I am surprised Dell went with BCM cards, I thought their laptops all had intel
Good Luck!
PhillyFloyd
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Posted April 30th, 2008 15:00
http://www.tecpages.com/installing-and-configuring-bcm4318-broadcom-driver-using-ndiswrapper/
Try that site ^