Fedora 8 Wireless Networking Out-Of-The-Box

[John W. Linville]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 11:29:43PM -0500, Randy Yates wrote:
> Does F8 support wireless networking out-of-the-box, including some sort
> of driver scheme for specific cards/chipsets (similar to the
> functionality provided by ndiswrapper)? If so, then how do I get my
> NetGear WG311v3 (Marvell chipset) working without using ndiswrapper?
> I installed F8 and it has not recognized it.
> 
> lspci -vvv yields
> 
> 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)

There is not driver in the Fedora kernels that supports this hardware.
I'm sorry.  You may have success with ndiswrapper, but I am not in
a position to support that.  Others on the list will probably be
willing to help you.

John
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