Bug 883126

Summary: No dropdown menu for Wi-Fi connection
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Yang Lifu <yanglifu90>
Component: wireless-toolsAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Yang Lifu 2012-12-03 20:25:34 UTC
Created attachment 657005 [details]
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Description of problem:
No Wireless menu in Network Manager

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Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click Network Manager
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Actual results: No Wi-Fi menu, even though have b43-fwcutter-016-1.fc18 (64-bit) installed


Expected results: See the Wi-Fi menu and connect a Wi-Fi network


Additional info: Fedora 18 Beta

Comment 1 John W. Linville 2012-12-03 20:38:43 UTC
Installing b43-fwcutter is insufficient.  You must also obtain the firmware and install it, as described here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Device_firmware_installation

After doing that, please reboot and try again.  Does that change the situation?