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Wireless

How To: Wireless LAN with Broadcom BCM4312 in Fedora 11

July 27, 2009
Broadcom Wireless BCM4312

Fedora 11 does have support for Broadcom wireless drivers, but it didn’t really work out on a friend’s laptop. Finally we got it working and I thought I’ll just note the steps down. Below are the three easy steps you need to take to make it work properly.
Step 1
Install needed packages

[root@fedora ~]$ yum install broadcom-wl  [...]

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Review: Fedora 8 – Warewolf

November 10, 2007

I installed Fedora 8 32 bit from a leaky mirror on Nov 7th and I just had a very bad experience with it. Nothing seemed to be working. But I can’t accept that. As I am a hardcore fan of Fedora, I just can’t sit back and say “ah, Fedora 8 sucks, i am [...]

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Info: Motherboard with Embedded Linux

October 7, 2007

A dull Sunday as usual. Woke up at 12:01pm and after finishing all startup jobs, came to lab at 1:00 pm. As usual, had nothing to do. Just went to slashdot to have some snacks. And what I saw over there was more than a surprise. OMG what the hell is going on. ASUS has [...]

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How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (rt2500) Level One WNC 0301 in Fedora 7

June 6, 2007

If you are searching for wireless lan configuration in Fedora Core 6, a detailed description is available here. Though Fedora 7 – Moonshine detect the Ralink rt2500 Level One WNC-0301 wireless lan card, the network doesn’t work properly with default drivers. You may be able to connect sometime, but some other time it may not [...]

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Review: Fedora 7 – Moonshine

June 4, 2007

As expected, I upgraded to Fedora 7 – Moonshine yesterday. The coolest feature I noticed is that it automatically detected my Ralink WNC-0301 wireless lan card. Well, support for other wireless lan cards like ipw2100, ipw2200 and ipw3945 is also there which is I think the best feature. Because I see a lot of people [...]

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How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (rt2500) Level One WNC-0301 in Fedora Core 6

September 26, 2006

Well … Yesterday I switched from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. The main problem was the wireless lan. As I was using ndiswrapper for wlan in FC4, I tried compiling it for FC6. But FC6 doesn’t have build packages so it didn’t work out. Then I installed the kernel-devel packages from here. Now [...]

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Hack: Mange Fluctuating Wireless

September 24, 2006

I am trying this small script with a so called gui . This helps managing my wireless in the extreme conditions. Just a shell script. Run the script as root otherwise it’ll not work.
Get the script here or copy the code below.

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#!/bin/bash
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# Author – Kulbir Saini, IIIT Hyderabad.
# Home – http://saini.co.in/
# KWirelessManger – Just for fun.(It [...]

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How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (RT2500) Level One WNC 0301 in Fedora Core 4

May 25, 2006

Yesterday after a lot of trials with Fedora Core 5 to activate my wireless LAN card, I switched to Fedora Core 4, which looked much more stable than FC5. Actually with FC5, I mainly faced problems with gui , my mouse which is Microsoft USB mouse and my wlan card which is level one Ralink [...]

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