Thread: Getting Wireless Working.

I have spent the last 3 days attempting to get the wireless working.
I have am running FC6

I have a Broadcom BCM94306 or bcm4306 from Dell.
The machine at start up says [failed]

I believe the card is a dell 1150 mini pci

In network settings gui the card is there bun it says inactive.
I have read every tutorial I can find and none of them allow me to see scan for my wireless router.

Please help.

This is not a topic for the MythTV forum.

Try googling for a more appropriate forum.

Now why would you say that.
I cannot get my laptop frontend working with wireless so that I can have access to my movies and live tv.
Of course it is a MythTV issue.. Maybe not directly but to get Myth working correctly I need to have the wireless working.

I have spent days googling to fix this to no avail.

Not really a mythtv issue, but I know how frustrating this can be.

In ubuntu I just needed to get a package called bcm43xx-fwcutter, but it may be different in Fedora.

That should download/install(cut?) the firmware for your card. For me I just installed the package, restarted and then all was working (Ubuntu Feisty/7.10)

Hope that helps

How do I know which set of drivers to download?
And Where should I get them from?

Try using google, a simply search for "fedora fc6 forum" will show you!

This is a forum for MythTV not a forum for distribution specific problems.

Well Ubuntu did all that for me.... I just had to apt-get it, was all downloaded/configured automatically.

I think you need a driver for your card, or for your chipset.

Try a Fedora specific forum, as they are much more likely to know the specifics of your distribution.

After days of messing with it I realized that the card I was using was not a 1300 but a 1150 which is not supported. I ended up swapping to the 1450 which is supported and was able to cut the driver and make it work.

It was hard to get it to make a stable connection but after 10 hours of messing with settings I finally found the correct combination..

Thanks for the help..