Re: F28 support for Broadcom BCM4322?

[dsavage--- via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 9/15/18 10:43 AM, dsavage--- via users wrote:
>> After my trusty ThinkPad W700 failed I've been forced to fall back to an
>> ancient Dell E6500 laptop with Broadcom BCM4322 WiFi. Apparently Fedora
>> 28
>> Workstation doesn't support that chipset. I'm forced to drag around a
>> <long> Ethernet cable. No matter what I try, I cannot enable WiFi.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> rpmfusion may have what you need.
>
> Name         : broadcom-wl
> Version      : 6.30.223.271
> Release      : 6.fc28
> Arch         : noarch
> Size         : 26 k
> Source       : broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-6.fc28.src.rpm
> Repo         : rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> Summary      : Common files for Broadcom 802.11 STA driver
> URLÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  :
> https://www.broadcom.com/support/download-search/?pf=Wireless+LAN+Infrastructure
> License      : Redistributable, no modification permitted
> Description  : This package contains the license, README.txt and
> configuration
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  : files for the Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA Driver
> for WiFi, a Linux
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  : device driver for use with Broadcom's BCM4311-,
> BCM4312-, BCM4313-,
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  : BCM4321-, BCM4322-, BCM43142-, BCM43224-,
> BCM43225-, BCM43227-,
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  : BCM43228-, BCM4331-, BCM4360 and -BCM4352-
> based hardware.
>
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Ed,

That was the first thing I tried. Installed, but no joy:

[doc@puma ~]$ lspci | grep BCM
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

[doc@puma ~]$ rpm -qa | grep broadcom
broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-6.fc28.noarch

Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Fairview Heights, IL

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