Action Hank Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Today I installed drivers for my Broadcom wifi card - it was working under Fedora, but after restart under both Fedora and Win7 there are neither wireless nor wired connections available, despite both wireless and ethernet card detectable by the system. I read sth on google that fedora sometimes burns broadcom wifi adapters. But maybe firmware is just messed up? I followed this tutorial -> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=239922 , laptop is Dell Inspiron 1545 '09 with Dell Wireless 1397 on Broadcom BCM4312 chipset. In the tree below I got the solution to install version 4 firmware, so I did. WiFi worked until first restart, now I can't even get any packages from the internet because of not working net adapters. lspci | Any of these listed? 4301 4303 4306 4309 4311 4312 4313 4318 / \ / \ / \ / \ Yes No / \ / \ / \ lsmod 4310? / / \ / / \ / Yes No b43 / \ loaded? / \ / \ ndiswrapper 4321,43224 / No 4322,43225 / \ 4328,43227 / \ 43XG,43228 Yes b43legacy / \ / loaded? / \ / / \ Yes No / Yes No / \ / / \ / \ 4306? / 4311? broadcom-wl 4320? 4311? Install 4312? (from lsusb 4318? version 3 4313? or other means) / \ firmware / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ Yes No Yes No Yes No / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ b43-openfwwf Install broadcom-wl ndiswrapper b43-openfwwf ndiswrapper or version 4 or Install firmware rndis_wlan version 4 firmware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Hank Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Solved. Installing drivers for windows which downloaded from another PC solved problem for both linux and windows. Sth bad to firmware happend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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