Re: [ilugd] Wireless on Dell Inspiron 15 (CentOS 5.2)
On Sunday 29 Mar 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: > gurteshwar singh wrote: > > Hi, I am trying to configure wireless on a Dell Inspiron 15 > > notebook. I am using CentOS 5.2. The output of lspci tells me that > > my wireless card is 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom > > Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01). The only way to get > > this up seems using ndiswrapper. Is there any other way? > > the bcm43xx driver is included in the centos-5 kernels. However, its > flaky at best. The b43 driver might make it into 5.4, with the entire > wifi stuff getting a rebase then. In the mean time, ndiswrapper is > the only way to have it work properly. > > even when the bcm43xx does work, its rarely ever at speeds > 11M. You can download a binary-only driver with a source wrapper from the broadcom web site. The driver is called wl, and seems to work after compiling and installing with only minor problems for me so far. OTOH, I haven't done anything with it yet apart from a few SSH and web sessions, not even any major file transfers on WiFi. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Wireless on Dell Inspiron 15 (CentOS 5.2)
gurteshwar singh wrote: Hi, I am trying to configure wireless on a Dell Inspiron 15 notebook. I am using CentOS 5.2. The output of lspci tells me that my wireless card is 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01). The only way to get this up seems using ndiswrapper. Is there any other way? the bcm43xx driver is included in the centos-5 kernels. However, its flaky at best. The b43 driver might make it into 5.4, with the entire wifi stuff getting a rebase then. In the mean time, ndiswrapper is the only way to have it work properly. even when the bcm43xx does work, its rarely ever at speeds > 11M. Please suggest any addon wireless cards (usb/other) which will run in rfmon and will be supported(not necessarily out of the box) by CentOS 5.2 and be easily available in the market, the cheaper the better :-) the intel wifi interfaces tend to work quite well normally. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Wireless on Dell Inspiron 15 (CentOS 5.2)
> > >I did that, it says No package broadcom-wl available. > > Its weird. Are you sure you have enabled rpmfusion repositories in your machine? It worked for fedora, they removed that binary for centos? May be ask in centos irc. Regards Arun SAG -- A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows. <-Fighting 4 Freedom-> ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Wireless on Dell Inspiron 15 (CentOS 5.2)
>Yes.Enable rpmfusion-nonfree repository in your system. (visit >www.rpmfusion.org) >then install broadcom-wl package, "yum install broadcom-wl" I did that, it says No package broadcom-wl available. Regards, guru ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Wireless on Dell Inspiron 15 (CentOS 5.2)
> > >Also is there any other way of getting my present wifi card to work > >without using ndiswrapper? > > Yes.Enable rpmfusion-nonfree repository in your system. (visit www.rpmfusion.org) then install broadcom-wl package, "yum install broadcom-wl" Regards Arun SAG -- A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows. <-Fighting 4 Freedom-> ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Wireless on Dell Inspiron 15 (CentOS 5.2)
Hi, I am trying to configure wireless on a Dell Inspiron 15 notebook. I am using CentOS 5.2. The output of lspci tells me that my wireless card is 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01). The only way to get this up seems using ndiswrapper. Is there any other way? Also I am pretty sure that even if I get it working, my wireless card will not support raw monitoring (rfmon) mode. Please suggest any addon wireless cards (usb/other) which will run in rfmon and will be supported(not necessarily out of the box) by CentOS 5.2 and be easily available in the market, the cheaper the better :-) Also is there any other way of getting my present wifi card to work without using ndiswrapper? Thanks guru ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
