I'll check and let you know.. alternatively I can also try a couple of other wi-fi cards I have here.. maybe they will be recognized out of the box.. I did switch to the dell 1400 (broadcom) to get full compatibility with osx.. it is probably time to get rid of these closed hw/os stuff and come back to the open source world.. much better from all the points of view..
what's surprises me is that when moblin was running from the sdhc it was working fine.. maybe I'll also try to reinstall again from scratch trying to follow all the same exact steps I did before and see if I can fix it.. ps: I did not think the broadcom card was proprietary as I thought the driver that can be found here: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php ..was the free source for all linux users using those cards! thanks bye! 2009/12/8 jack craig <[email protected]> > have you taken a look at the dmesg to see what it says about your wifi > card's enumeration? > > you do know that broadcom is a proprietary hw and no public domain drivers > exist for it. > > i chickened out and swapped my unsupported wifi card for an intel wifi and > it works fine. > > > > On 12/8/2009 9:59 AM, Roby wrote: > >> I all, sorry for bothering you again but I am having again problems with >> the >> wifi.. :( >> >> I did install moblin from scratch on the eeepc second SSD (it was running >> from SDHC before, unbelievable how it is fast now!!) and downloaded and >> installed all the available new packages using the wired lan, so moblin >> was >> completely up to date. >> then I tried to install the wl-kmod using again the slaine how to as I did >> when moblin was running from SDHC.. >> >> ..this time I can not go through all the steps, it fails when trying to >> install the "development tools" group (it seems it does not have >> candidates >> anymore, as it founds nothing to install) so I could not build the driver >> rpm (I get some error messages). >> >> then looking in settings> application manager I found and was able to >> install the development tools from the gui.. after installing all the >> stuff >> (about 30mb) I was able to complete the how to (build the rpm and install >> it).. but wi fi is not recognized.. I did try to reboot.. nothing.. I also >> tried to uninstall the wl-kmod package and reinstall it again but still >> the >> wi fi is not recognized.. why? :( >> >> please help me thanks, >> Robya >> >> >> 2009/12/5 Konstantin Scheumann<[email protected]> >> >> >> >>> hi Roby! >>> >>> did you do a kernel update? >>> >>> 2009/12/5 Roby<[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> >>>> I all, >>>> unfortunately after the recent updates my wi-fi card is no more >>>> detected, >>>> while it was working great before. >>>> >>>> The card chip is a broadcom (dell 1400) and to get it to work before I >>>> did >>>> follow this guide: >>>> http://slaine.org/_slaine/Dell_Mini_9.html >>>> >>>> I have already tried to follow all the steps again but I can't get the >>>> wifi >>>> to be recognized again :( .. when I type in all the commands again it >>>> says >>>> all the packaged are already installed so nothing happens. also the wifi >>>> driver rpm is already installed and can not install it again from the >>>> terminal.. >>>> >>>> can you help me please? without wi-fi I can't use the system.. >>>> >>>> thanks!! >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Moblin dev Mailing List >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: >>>> http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on >>>> http://moblin.org once logged in. >>>> >>>> For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: >>>> http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moblin dev Mailing List >> [email protected] >> >> To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: >> http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on >> http://moblin.org once logged in. >> >> For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: >> http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
