Wireless (bcmw4318) on inspiron 2200 on fedora core 6

[Mobo]

First thing needed is a fresh install as most new users in thier attempts have a tendency to get some settings pretty messed up.

Then with that in place:

A Open a terminal window, Do a "yum -y update" as root and then reboot when the update finishes.

B get ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/not...iver/80211g.zip.

C Unzip 80211g.zip. (Use the command "unzip 80211g.zip".) Do a "cp ./80211g/bcmwl5.sys ~/".

D Install the fwcutter package from Fedora Extras by doing a "yum -y install bcm43xx-fwcutter" as root.

E Open a terminal window in your home directory where you unzipped the zipped driver file.

F In that terminal window Extract the firmware from bcmwl5.sys by doing a "/usr/bin/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware bcmwl5.sys" as root. You can verify that fwcutter extracted the firmware to /lib/firmware by doing a "ls /lib/firmware".

G Set up Network Manger to automatically connect to your wireless and wired connections with the following commands, entering your root password as prompted after each command:

su -c '/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManager on'

  su -c '/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManagerDispatcher on'

su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager start ; /sbin/service NetworkManagerDispatcher start'

H Reboot your machine. The network manager icon will appear on your panel and you will be prompted to enter a gnome keyring password and your wireless network WPA key and other information.


My particular system had a wep security set in the router setup so what i did in addition was go to applications- add/remove software. Then in the list directory I installed wireless tools.

I then proceeded to system /administration / Wireless tools and connected wirelessly..