Might a Different Driver or Firmware Improve Matters?
You may be reading this section because you found that on your system at the moment the wireless networking components are not working and playing well together. In this situation it is possible that: • finding and loading new firmware (software loaded into your wireless network adapter), and / or • finding and loading new drivers (software loaded into your Fedora operating system) may lead to correctly operating wireless communications. Your manual efforts are required because • in some cases licensing constraints bar Fedora from redistributing firmware that is known to be necessary (or at least better than what is still loaded on your hardware), and • for some hardware there are multiple drivers available, and the one driver that works best for many users on other systems may not provide the best experience for all users. The first step is to identify the wireless networking hardware in your system. Since there are many different ways a wireless adapter can be packaged and built into
