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It's an Acer Aspire One, ruby red with a 10-inch screen. The label on the bottom says "D150-1920", and "lspci" shows that it has a Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) wireless NIC. Yes, i added the rpmfusion repos before I installed broadcom-wl. There were a couple other procedures I tried that didn't work, before I ran across the one that used broadcom-wl. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Jarod Wilson<jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote: > On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:29 PM, John Abreau wrote: > >> I'm planning to load it onto my netbook tonight, if I get out of the >> office early enough. I just loaded the preview release at the >> Installfest >> a bit over a week ago, and I haven't done much with the thing yet. >> >> Someone at the Installfest had asked me whether the Acer's wireless >> was working. ?Wireless didn't work out of the box when I frst >> installed >> the preview release, but after I installed the package "broadcom-wl" >> and rebooted, wireless worked fine. > > > Which netbook? My own Acer netbook (Aspire One, 8.9" screen) came with > an Atheros wifi chip, which does work out of the box. > > Note that broadcom-wl is the partially-closed-source driver direct > from Broadcom for their most recent (particularly n-capable) chips, > and is found in the RPM Fusion repo, not the Fedora repo. > > > >> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jerry Feldman<gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote: >>> I plan to do a full install this weekend, and preserving my >>> existing Fedora >>> 10. ?Additionally, instead of the usual method of downloading, >>> burning a >>> DVD, I will either do a network install like I did with Fedora 10 >>> (eg. >>> placing the isolinux and corresponding initrd into my /boot >>> directory), or >>> an HD install directly from the iso. Probably install directly from >>> the iso >>> since I'll want to have F11 for the next installfest. >>> >>> On 06/09/2009 09:43 AM, Stephen Adler wrote: >>>> >>>> It looks like fedora 11 is out, but not quite announced yet.... >>>> I'd love >>>> to read posts of those brave enough to upgrade their systems.... > > > > -- > Jarod Wilson > jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr-iMZfmuK6BGBxLiRVyXs8+g at public.gmane.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99
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