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Wireless Setup Fedora

For ndiswrapper and a WPC54Gv1 Card, the broadcom bcm43xx driver does not seem to work so we need to change the modprobe.conf to disable it.

Add to /etc/modprobe.conf

(:source:) alias wlan0 ndiswrapper blacklist bcm43xx

Download the driver

(:source:) # cd <driver folder> # rmmod ndiswrapper # ndiswrapper -i <driver inf file name> # modprobe ndiswrapper

If kernel does not lock up at this point, you should see from dmesg :

(:source:) ndiswrapper version 1.37 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes) ndiswrapper: driver lsbcmnds (The Linksys Group, Inc.,02/14/2005, 3.90.36.0) loaded

Set up /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

(:source:) # Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller DEVICE=wlan0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:0c:41:2c:bc:fb TYPE=Wireless ESSID='essid name' CHANNEL=any MODE=Managed #NETMASK= #DHCP_HOSTNAME= #IPADDR= #DOMAIN= #HWADDR= #RATE=

Set up /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-wlan0

(:source:) KEY=MyASCIIFORMATTEDKEY

Get formatted key from here :

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