{"id":905,"date":"2009-05-14T12:59:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2009-05-14T12:59:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:59:30","slug":"wireless-on-a-dell-inspiron-2200-fedora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wireless-on-a-dell-inspiron-2200-fedora\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless on a Dell Inspiron 2200 (Fedora)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently set up an old Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop to dual-boot Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9. Neither distribution installed drivers for the Broadcom wireless-G card, but it was pretty straightforward. These instructions are for Fedora:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n$ sudo yum install b43-fwcutter NetworkManager NetworkManager-glib NetworkManager-gnome<br \/>\n$ wget -c http:\/\/downloads.openwrt.org\/sources\/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2<br \/>\n$ bzip2 -d broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2<br \/>\n$ tar -xvf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar<br \/>\n$ cd .\/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5\/driver\/<br \/>\n$ b43-fwcutter -w \/lib\/firmware wl_apsta_mimo.o<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Then just select the wireless access point in Network Manager and enter the password, and you should be connected.<\/p>\n<p>To think how much of a pain this was just a few years ago, it really is quite astonishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently set up an old Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop to dual-boot Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9. Neither distribution installed drivers for the Broadcom wireless-G card, but it was pretty straightforward. These instructions are for Fedora: $ sudo yum install b43-fwcutter NetworkManager NetworkManager-glib NetworkManager-gnome $ wget -c http:\/\/downloads.openwrt.org\/sources\/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 $ bzip2 -d broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 $ tar -xvf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wireless on a Dell Inspiron 2200 (Fedora) - Blackmoor Vituperative<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wireless-on-a-dell-inspiron-2200-fedora\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wireless on a Dell Inspiron 2200 (Fedora) - Blackmoor Vituperative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I recently set up an old Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop to dual-boot Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9. 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