Saturday, May 28, 2011

[Solved] Fedora 15 Wifi Problem

It seems that wifi adapter driver is missing in fedora 15 even in the DVD and the repository.
It can be installed from source. I learned compiling the source and realize that Compiling isn't Rocket Science.
Just follow the steps for

First you need to download Broadcom's IEEE 802.11 Driver from here



Check your architecture and download appropriate one.
Also download the patch file.

copy the downloaded files to home or any location u like.

Now comes compilation..

Open your favourite terminal and run the following commands

mkdir wifi
cd wifi
tar zxf ../hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_38.tar.gz
patch -p0 <../5_100_82_38.patch
make
sudo make install
sudo depmod -a
su -c 'echo "modprobe wl" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local'
sudo reboot

On any security issue, run all the above removing sudo after

su


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14 comments:

  1. i will try and post the results

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  2. Hi

    I followed the process exactly... it says

    KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
    make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64/build: No such file or directory. Stop.

    please help

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  3. Hi bro,

    I followed the procedure as you have mentioned and got it working. After few days I had to re-install fedora gnome 3 again...but this time it's giving exactly the same error as it shows in the previous comment... Everything works fine until patch..problem starts at make command

    Please help

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  4. @Azaruddin, you have to install kernel-devel package.

    yum install kernel-devel.

    Note that the kernel-devel package should be the same version as your kernel.

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  5. Hi bro

    I have installed Kernel-devel and gcc package now and then followed the above mentioned instuction .. everything looked like working but actually wifi is still not working... however i would like to post the results of Make command... please let me know if its normal

    KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
    make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64
    LD /home/azaruddin/wifi/built-in.o
    CC [M] /home/azaruddin/wifi/src/shared/linux_osl.o
    CC [M] /home/azaruddin/wifi/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
    CC [M] /home/azaruddin/wifi/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.o
    LD [M] /home/azaruddin/wifi/wl.o
    Building modules, stage 2.
    MODPOST 1 modules
    WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in /home/azaruddin/wifi
    see include/linux/module.h for more information
    CC /home/azaruddin/wifi/wl.mod.o
    LD [M] /home/azaruddin/wifi/wl.ko
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64'

    I am going to reinstall win 7 and fedora 15 again cause my MBR has got corrupted.. will post the results after update...

    Strange thing is it worked when i installed it for the first time...later after doing os re-installation its not working...

    One more thing i booted inially using a USB drive...later i kept few of my personal files in that drive and then removed them and did an OS reinstall... i guess that might have caused it...

    I am going to download the ISO and create a bootable disc this time.

    Wish me luck and please reply and let me know where i went wrong

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  6. THANK YOU....IT REALLY WORKED FOR MY PC.....................THANKS ONCE AGAIN

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  7. patch -p0 <../5_100_82_38.patch

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  8. patch -p0 <../5_100_82_38.patch
    no such file or directory
    now what to do.

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  9. Thanks.........It worked for me...........
    But why It takes long time to connect wi-fi. Some time requires reboot to connect, I mean connection is slower. I have dell i5 laptop with fedora 15. wi-fi works well for other machines.
    Hari:

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