I've been attempting to setup the wireless hardware in a recently purchased Dell Inspiron 9400 on Fedora Core 5. The wireless hardware is built into the system. It has a Broadcom based, Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card. I've followed the tried both of the following pages to get the hardware to work. http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-livna/ Everything goes good until I get to setting up a new wireless connection inside system-config-network. It doesn't see the wireless card at all, so I'm unable to set the card up. When I check hwbrowser, it also doesn't see the wireless card. # dmesg ndiswrapper version 1.13 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes) ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,11/02/2005, 4.10.40.0) loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0c:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:0c:00.0 to 64 ndiswrapper: using irq 17 wlan0: vendor: '' wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:16:ce:52:02:5a using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4311.5.conf wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK # /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l Installed drivers: bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present # iwconfig wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 The Dell driver for this hardware is here: (for ndiswrapper) http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R115321&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_600M&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=7945&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=11&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=152055 I also tried http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=29659, but got the same behavior.
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