Comments on: Wireless on a Compaq 6715b (BCM4312) under Fedora 7 and 8

By: Coaster

Coaster — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:10:15 +0000

Hi Steve,
I haven’t had a chance to play with FC9 yet on one of these laptops. Once I do I’ll update the guides or post new ones. For now I couldn’t even guess as to what has changed, it seems like most of the HP laptop are a pain when it comes to wireless.

Thanks for your comment!

Brian

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:00:20 +0000

Great tutorial. I’ve tried it on Fedora 9 (beta) but with the following modifications:

1) Downloaded ndiswrapper from sourceforge and compiled/installed. Didn’t use Livna directory (not sure it exists for F9 yet!)
2) Installed make, etc through yum.

Everything seemed to go great, right up to rebooting and opening the network manager dialog. And then… I couldn’t activate the wireless entry.

Don’t suppose you’d have any idea why this is?

Nice site, btw

By: Coaster

Coaster — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:05:36 +0000

My guess would be that there is a typo in your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

I’d double check that file.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:58:36 +0000

I need help!!!

I follow your manual, and I think, your manual it’s better than other manuals, but fedora show me the next message in the Network admin:

WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist.swp line 1: ignoring bad line starting with ‘b0VIM’
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist.swp line 1: ignoring bad line starting with ‘b0VIM’
El dispositivo ndiswrapper wlan0 no parece estar presente, retrasando la inicialización.

My notebook is HP dv6420la, my wireless Broadcom 4312.

Help me please :S