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WLAN device on Dell Inspiron not detected by Fedora 11 Posted: 22 Oct 2009 10:41 PM PDT I recently installed Fedora 11 on my Dell Inspiron 14. I have Windows Vista on the same machine (I immediately created a dual-boot setup when I got the laptop), and Windows Vista can detect the WLAN, but Fedora 11 can’t. So how did it fix the problem? Executing lspci on my terminal showed this line along with several other lines: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) Googling BCM4312 lead me to Broadcom Linux STA Driver. As stated in the intro: These packages contain Broadcom’s IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux® device driver for use with Broadcom’s BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4321-, and BCM4322-based hardware. However, this driver is known to support other chipsets labelled differently (such as the BCM4328.) And then it was as simple as executing the following: Install the broadcom-wl packages yum install broadcom-wl Load the driver modprobe wl and restarting my machine. Related posts: Installing NVIDIA driver on Fedora 10 Install Chromium on Fedora 11 Install Windows XP SP2 via Sun VirtualBox in Fedora 10 Setting-up Fedora 10 Install Handbrake on Fedora 11 Tags: BCM4312, Broadcom, Dell Inspiron, Fedora 11, WLAN

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