I recently changed my home laptop from being a Windows machine to a Linux machine. It took more time then I expected because firstly I was not using a distribution which was good for Desktop like Ubuntu or Mint and secondly because I had Windows 8 installed on my laptop and was keen to keep it. Somehow I managed to install oracle linux 6.3 on my laptop but I had to revert back to Windows 7 from Windows 8.
Linux does not include WiFi drivers especially the enterprise linux which is basically meant for database servers connected via LAN cables. I though it like that as well and suggested to myself that I should treat this as my mainframe server and stick to my table every time I need to work on it.
But I was not going to settle on this for too long. So I went on a mission to make WiFi networks accessible. After about an hour of Googling I found the link of a forum which listed a few simple steps to make it work. Not very hopeful I tried those steps and restarted the machine and vola it worked.
You can check that specific forum thread here.
I have nothing but all praises for the person suggesting and solving my problem. For your convenience here the steps.
Linux does not include WiFi drivers especially the enterprise linux which is basically meant for database servers connected via LAN cables. I though it like that as well and suggested to myself that I should treat this as my mainframe server and stick to my table every time I need to work on it.
But I was not going to settle on this for too long. So I went on a mission to make WiFi networks accessible. After about an hour of Googling I found the link of a forum which listed a few simple steps to make it work. Not very hopeful I tried those steps and restarted the machine and vola it worked.
You can check that specific forum thread here.
I have nothing but all praises for the person suggesting and solving my problem. For your convenience here the steps.
- Download the firmware files by clicking this.
- Save the file into any location.
- Open a terminal and set your working directory where you have placed the file.
- Extract the files using the command: tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
- Navigate to extracted folders: cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
- Switch to root user: su (password for root will be prompted).
- Issue the command: b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta_mimo.o
The above steps are tested on Oracle linux 6.3 but they should work on any oracle, redhat, CentOS or Fedora based distributions. The forum is basically for Fedora.
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