Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen <at> tmr.com> writes:
> My Acer say:
> 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller 
> (rev 01)
>          Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Unknown device e003
> 
> and that doesn't work, even loading the b43, or b43legacy, or b44 
> driver. So now I have a lovely postable desktop, until I find a USB 
> wireless which works.

Did you download the (unfortunately non-redistributable) firmware correctly? 
Please install b43-fwcutter if you don't have it yet and 
read /usr/share/doc/b43-fwcutter-011/README.Fedora (and follow the instructions 
in it).

        Kevin Kofler