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Dell Latitude E5500 Wireless Fedora 14

Dell Latitude E5500 Wireless – Fedora 14 I recently needed to send my main work machine in for repairs so I temporarily used a Dell Latitude E5500 while my normal D630 was away. Boy did I have trouble with the hardware on this machine! This blog post is a meagre attempt at outlining what was required of me to get some hardware supported. Hopefully this helps some other poor soul along the way. **Wireless Driver ** In order to enable Wireless on the Dell Latitude E5500 (bcm4322), you’ll need to follow the steps below. This requires a “nonfree” driver from the rpmfusion repository, as well as an addition to the kernel parameter in GRUB. It’s not so bad once you know the requirements, the trouble is finding the requirements (again, the reason for this post!) Install the rpmfusion nonfree repository using the command: rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm With this repository now added, you’ll be able to install the broadcom-wl package. Read more