Comments on: How To: Wireless LAN with Broadcom BCM4312 in Fedora 11

By: sharangouda

sharangouda — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:42:21 +0000

plz help me steps for wifi connection in fedora 8 for dell inspiron 1545 model

By: Petros

Petros — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:15:02 +0000

worked like charm for me too, thank you!

By: chava

chava — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:49:44 +0000

hi. i can’t install my wireless card, Dell Wireless WLAN 1520 Half MiniCard. i wrote de comand “[root@fedora ~]$ yum install broadcom-wl wl-kmod” but the terminal gave me:

No package broadcom-wl available.
No package wl-kmod available.

what is the issue?

By: Mosiur

Mosiur — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:00:45 +0000

Help me,i m a beginner.i cant get anything.i want everything in detail.pls help

By: Caio Galvão

Caio Galvão — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:40:12 +0000

Vlw Saini, já estava desistindo do fedora… Daí vc me deu a luz.

By: chantiya

chantiya — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:26:31 +0000

hi, my wireless is not detecting presence of wireless network in range.
m using fedora13

By: Anthony Thyssen

Anthony Thyssen — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:46:21 +0000

Thanks. This confirmed what I was above to discover by less exact means.

Specifically that my XPS 1600 laptop with a (by the dell specification)
Dell 1520 Wireless-N half-mini card
is really using a
Broadcom Corporation Device 4353 (rev 01)

By: James Bennet

James Bennet — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:08:30 +0000

Dear above poster, you can use lspci to find out exactly which piece of hardware is being used. See my blog here: http://www.jamesben.net/?p=467

The output lspci gave me in my situation was something like “Broadcom BCM4312E a\b\g Wireless Adapter”, so it should give you the details you desire.

By: Anthony Thyssen

Anthony Thyssen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:52:29 +0000

Well this page gave me the pointer I needed to get it working. Though I had problems with rpm fusion. However the rpmfusion kmod-wl-PAE package however wanted to install a FC13 package for a fc14 kernel on my fc12 system. Needless to say it could not find any such kernel, so dependancies failed.

Eventually I found a RPM for my kernel using a google search for kmod-wl-
with the current kernel (uname -r) and once installed and rebooted my wireless came up fine.

Tonight I will try to install the akmod-wl package so that the kernel driver will automatically build and install the appropriat modulae when my kernel is next upgraded.

Question: How do you find out the exact BCM chip that is being used?
My laptop parts list only gave “Dell Wireless 1520 802.11n Half mini card”

By: Installing Linux on Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 « Code Ghar

Installing Linux on Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 « Code Ghar — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:51:09 +0000

[…] I searched around and found a solution: install RPM Fusion repo and then follow the instructions of How To: Wireless LAN with Broadcom BCM4312 in Fedora 11. This basically involved running the following command and then re-booting the machine: sudo yum […]