Wireless

Welcome to Fedora Mobile. This site has been created 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 AR 5212/5213 with Madwifi Kernel Modules — by Thomas Janssen — last modified Nov 15, 2008 04:32 PM

How to get Wireless Lan Card Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01) to work in Fedora 8 with NetworkManager.

Broadcom b43/b43legacy Wireless Support in Fedora — by daMaestro — last modified Sep 06, 2008 10:31 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.

Getting Started with Wireless — by Clive — last modified Jul 18, 2008 05:20 PM

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 Nov 15, 2008 04:41 PM

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.

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