How do I get my wifi to work on my Dell wireless 1450? (broadcom)

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Then find out what chipset your wireless card has by looking at the output of

lspci

or

lsusb

The Dell Wireless 1450 uses the Broadcom BCM4309 (rev 03) chipset. FedoraMobile has a guide to install the drivers for Broadcom BCMxx chipsets.

http://fedoramobile.org/

1.- Activate RPMFusion:

su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck 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.- Update:

sudo yum -y update

3.- Install the Drivers:

sudo yum -y install broadcom-wl akmod-wl kmod-wl
sudo yum -y install rfkill

4.- Activate the Wi-Fi:

su -
rfkill list
rfkill unblock all

5.- Verifying ...

Now reboot and verify that our wireless switch is on and WLAN connections are enabled in Network Manager. After reboot run again:

sudo rfkill list
sudo rfkill unblock all

ust selecy the wifi that your prefer and connecting.