another fedora release...

[jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

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....
>
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