Re: Adding Broadcom BCM 43142 WiFi driver to F22 on laptop

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Easy solution -- Get a USB Wi-Fi dongle and plug it into your laptop. Most Linux distros recognize these with no problems.

On Wed Sep 30 5:41 , Ron Leach sent:

> List, good morning,
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>
> Recently purchased a new laptop which uses the Broadcom BCM 43142 
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> chipset and, though I can run the live F22 XFCE spin, Fedora doesn't 
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> see the WiFi device.  The laptop does not have a wired Ethernet port 
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> and so, without the WiFi, there's no connectivity.  I'd like some help 
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> in locating a suitable driver for the WiFi chipset, and also a clue 
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> how to install it whilst without connectivity.
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>
> The laptop is an HP Stream 11 Notebook PC, and is limited to:
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> 32GB MMC SDD HD,
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> 2 x USB,
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> WiFi BCM 43142
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> http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/default.aspx\?cc=ie&lc=en&oid=8245635
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> (The label beneath the laptop advises that the radio is BCM943142HM.) 
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>   The F22 boot log file doesn't record the chipset (as far as I can 
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> see) but a live version of another distro identified the chipset as 
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> Broadcom 43142.
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> On searching, some users suggest that an appropriate driver may be 
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> available in the 'fusion' repository, but the procedure suggested 
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> requires connectivity, which I don't have without the WiFi working:
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> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/43146/fedora-20-not-detecting-wifi-cardbroadcom-43142-wireless-lan-adapter-of-sony-vaio/
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> Searches also return problem fixes for other distros, involving a 
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> 'Broadcom STA' driver, at 'kernel level', a phrase I don't understand 
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> and I have no experience of.
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>
> If I could download the driver (using another machine which does have 
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> connectivity), I could then copy the driver onto an SD card which 
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> could be read by F22/XFCE on the HP Stream notebook.  But I do not 
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> know how to install the driver from an SD card into Fedora when 
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> running XFCE live (nor when Fedora/XFCE is fully installed, which I 
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> hope to do after this trial).
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>
> I'll look out for any replies; I really would be grateful for any 
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> thoughts,
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>
> regards, Ron
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