Linux Wireless
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Determine which wireless card you have
As root
/sbin/lspci | grep Wireless
You output should look something like the following
02:01.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) 02:01.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
Broadcom BCM4312
Found on the newer Dell Latitude D630's - the slightly older revisions had the more cooperative intel 3945 or 4965 which should function more or less out of the box, if not, the drivers are in the standard repo's.
Currently only tested with FC9
Configure NetworkManager to automatically start and start the service.
su -c '/sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager on' su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager start'
Download and extract the firmware
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 tar -jxvf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
Cut the firmware
cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod /usr/bin/b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o
Add the following line so that it can be configured by system-config-network
su -c 'echo "alias wlan0 b43" >> /etc/modprobe.conf'
Restart NetworkManager
su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager restart'
