I cant get my wireless to work on my comp

[DirtyFed]

HI,

I am really new to the whole Linux world but i would like to get better at understanding it.

I currently installed Fedora 8 x86_64 on Hp pavilion dv2410us. My problem is that when i go to Network I do not see any device for my built in wireless card.

Obviously i have to install the driver but i cant find it any where on the hp site. I know my wireless card is a designed by broadcom however i dont know the model type so i dont know which driver i should download. I have researched alot but have found no solution.

I believe there isn't much support for linux for my hp. I was wandering if anybody could help.

..is there universal driver i can install for the wireless. or something like that. Any help would be great

Thnx

[stevea]

If you type "lspci" you will see a list of all the PCI hardware on your system. On one of my systems I get a line like this:
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

You should get a line for your broadcom. It will identify the broadcom chip set. Then search this forum for the driver and install method.

I think you will need the b43-cutter package (or whatever the correct name). You use that to snip the boadcom firmware out of the windows driver. Probably place the resulting firmware into /lib/firmware . Then load the broadcom driver (modprobe broadcom). That's a guess - search the forum.

[DirtyFed]

Thnx! ill see if this works

[DirtyFed]

Alright everything works great now. I get my wireless connection however it is extremely slow. It says i get 80% signal strength. Is there a way to fix the this?