Wireless

Welcome to Fedora Mobile. This site has been created by concerned peers in the Fedora Community to bring quality solutions related to Fedora on mobile devices. Members may include site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors, and interested users. This site focuses on using Fedora with wireless (Wi-Fi) devices but we hope will evolve into a location to solve all issues with mobile class devices running Fedora.

Atheros cards with Madwifi Kernel Modules — by Thomas Janssen — last modified May 12, 2009 08:44 AM

How to get Wireless Lan Atheros Cards (not working with ath5k, ath9k) to work in Fedora 9+ with NetworkManager.

Broadcom b43/b43legacy Wireless Support in Fedora — by daMaestro — last modified Mar 13, 2009 09:20 AM

A Linux driver for the Broadcom b43 wireless chips. Broadcom never released details about these chips so this driver is based upon reverse engineered specifications.

Broadcom Linux STA Driver — by daMaestro — last modified Feb 04, 2011 03:09 PM

These packages contain Broadcom's IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux® device driver for use with Broadcom's BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4321-, and BCM4322-based hardware. However, this driver is known to support other chipsets labelled differently (such as the BCM4328.)

Configuring an Ad-Hoc wireless network — by Charles Amey — last modified Jun 01, 2010 03:54 PM

You've got two computers, both with wireless network cards, and you want to network them. This assumes that both computers have good wireless cards that work with linux. It also assumes that you aren't using stuff like ndiswrapper to make the cards work.

Getting Started with Wireless — by Clive — last modified Jun 11, 2009 08:50 AM

Help and Advice on getting your wireless networking card working with Fedora.

Gnome-keyring automatic opened when login with pam keyring — by Thomas Janssen — last modified Apr 07, 2008 02:40 PM

How to get the gnome-keyring automatic opened for, example Wlan, when you login into Gnome.

Installing IPW2x00 Kernel Modules — by scott_glaser — last modified Nov 15, 2008 04:50 PM

The Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2100 Drivers for Linux project was created by Intel to enable support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection, Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection mini PCI adapters and Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection mini PCI adapter. This project's (IPW2200) and (IPW2100) are intended to be a community effort, as much as is possible, given some working constraints (mainly, no HW documentation is available).

Installing Madwifi Kernel Modules — by bobjensen — last modified Nov 15, 2008 04:35 PM

Installing and using the madwifi kernel modules from the RPMFusion repo is very simple and gets wireless going painlessly.

Installing Ndiswrapper Kernel Modules — by scott_glaser — last modified Apr 14, 2009 09:48 AM

Ndiswrapper is a project that focuses on getting support for wireless network devices for which the manufactures do not release any sort of linux driver.

Internet Connection Sharing Over Wifi With Fedora — by Dave Riches — last modified May 20, 2010 11:34 AM

Sometimes it is desirable to share the internet connection of one pc with the other pc's on your network, Fedora 12 not only makes it easy to share your internet connection - but to share it over wifi by creating an AdHoc network.

Network Manager on Fedora — by daMaestro — last modified Apr 24, 2008 03:40 PM

Network Manager is a management tool for networking. It works well for connecting with both wifi and wired networks.

Ralink rt2x00 chipset on Fedora 5 — by mafiosoph — last modified Mar 07, 2008 10:19 PM

This Howto explains the steps needed to install the necessary Fedora Core 5 kernel drivers to be able to use pci/usb lan cards based upon the Ralink rt2x00 chipsets.

Setting up the Intel ipw3945 Wireless a/b/g notebook adapter from source — by opsec — last modified Jun 09, 2008 01:32 PM

These advanced instructions will help you to get the ipw3945 Intel wireless a/b/g notebook adapter working with Fedora. Please do not use these instructions if you do not need advanced features or your user experience level is not appropriate. For help please visit #fedora on Freenode IRC Network.

System Config Network — by Clive — last modified Nov 15, 2008 04:48 PM

Configuring your network with system-config-network

Troubleshooting Wireless — by Clive — last modified Jul 18, 2008 05:11 PM

Check out this page for some handy commands to help investigate a wireless connection that is not working correctly