wifi trouble on acer 5024

[tuxalka]

Hi, I have trouble with wifi on my laptop acer 5024 - wifi chipset is Broadcom 4318. I learned that I need to activate this wifi using kernel module acer-wmi. I use dhcp. I wrote commands: modprobe acer-wmi, modprobe ndiswrapper. But Network manager doesn´t show any network. Could anybody help me? Please. I was able to use my wifi with linux distribution Mandriva through its control center, now I would like use fedora. Could you navigate me what to do? Thanks.

[bbfuller]

Hello tuxalka

Welcome to the forum.

To get your broadcom 4318 to work you need to do this:

Download this file and put it into a directory somewhere:

http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/b...0.10.5.tar.bz2

Acquire full root rights over your machine with this command in a terminal window:

su -

That's a space and a minus sign after the su. It gives you full root rights over your machine rather than just root rights over your ordinary users environment without it.

Use the cd command to navigate into the directory where you downloaded the above file. Issue the command:

tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2

That unpacks the file archive you downloaded and will create you a new directory where you are working called 'broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5'.

cd into that and then the 'driver' directory within that and use the command:

b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta_mimo.o

That cuts the required firmware for your card from the downloaded file and places it in the correct place for the b43 driver to find it.

Restart the machine and left clicking on the NetworkManager icon in the system tray of either Gnome or KDE should bring up a list of wireless access points to connect to.

Left click on one of those.

Post back with any questions or problems.

[tuxalka]

Thank you. I did exactly you recommended me and after restart I could see the wireless connections.