Wireless Broadcom BCM93411MCG wlan mini-pci

[Mansour]

willhs at siu.edu wrote:
> I have a compaq presario c500 running fedora core 8 (with
> automatic  updates already installed) with a "Broadcom
> Corparation BCM93411MCG wlan mini-pci" card. It shows up in
> network configuration under hardware as an ethernet card and not
> a wireless  connection. I tried to delete it as an ethernet and
> set it up as a wireless, yet "Broadcom Corparation BCM93411MCG
> wlan mini-pci" does not show up under "select wireless device" or
> "adapter type". Yet when I add it as an ethernet connection it
> shows up under "adapter type" or "select ethernet connection" yet
> if I install it, it has a status of 'ok', yet does not function
> or activate. 
>
> Drivers?
>   
Yes, it looks like it's a driver issue.
We need more info to be able to help.
post the output of these commands:

/sbin/lspci | grep -i broad
/sbin/lsmod | sort
uname -a



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