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Long winded update

The post installation update of Fedora 10 - Gnome took forever!

One bad thing about the update is that the shut down settings have changed. Before the update, when I chose “shutdown” from the System menu, “hibernate” and “suspend” were options. Now, they aren’t there!

I am thankful that I didn’t have to Google for ages to find how to update the system to use my Dell 1390 card. http://www.fedoraguide.info had all the information I needed, and it was super easy. I’ve read other methods of using fwcutter and other methods to extract drivers from other sources. This was a piece of cake, and easy enough to summarize quickly.

1. install the Fusion repository
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'
2. install the driver
su -c 'yum update'
su -c 'yum install broadcom-wl'
3. configure your system so that the wireless card automaticaly starts
System menu :: Administration :: Network :: click “wlan0″ and then “edit”
check “Controlled by Network Manager” and “Activate device when computer starts”.
4. Restart and test

After restarting,