The Network Administrator

I took a new Lenovo S10-3T which shipped with Windows 7 and reloaded it with Fedora. I was not able load Fedora via usb as i dont have a DVD/CD Drive. I followed the instructions https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ and  used the live usb creator. I ended up just using an external usb DVD drive and was able to perform the install that way, I had trouble getting the ethernet and wireless interface to intialize.

To correct the broadcom BCM57780 ethernet issue… 

/etc/rc.d/rc.local file to add the following 3 lines:

rmmod tg3
insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/phy/broadcom.ko
insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko

Go ahead and reboot…..

The Wireless is a Broadcom bcm4312. It was fixed by doing the following….

Open a term window and become root….

su -
yum update
yum install broadcom-wl

if you have any trouble try updating repo.


rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm


Then  reboot….

The S10 that i have did not come with with bluetooth …I took it apart and found that out

So i went to BestBuy and bought a RocketFish http://www.rocketfishproducts.com/pc-169-3-rocketfish-bluetooth-micro-adapter-for-bluetooth-enabled-cell-phones-black.aspx