Install FC18 on laptop? Wifi woes

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I'm trying to update a laptop to FC18, but that does not seem to be an option, because the Broadcom WiFi is still not supported. It seems that the obvious solutions are not practical, since both the Live-CD and Install kernels use kernels for which rpmfusion has no driver software due to their age.

I suppose I could grab another laptop, connect to the net, set up routing, connect the laptops by cable, but that's a real hack. I could also install MINT, since their religious beliefs do not prohibit using freely provided vendor drivers, but I really prefer Fedora.

I could provide a USB WiFi adapter which is recognized, only none of the three I have is detected by the kernels provided, even though they all worked on the FC16 gen laptops I was using a year ago or so.

I could build my own kernel, but I have never mastered the secure boot sign your own UEFI, and I could run FC18 under KVM, but that doesn't provide the newer security features, just the newer apps, which is not the issue.

Suggestions?

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