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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.<BR>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Wed Sep 30 5:41 , Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> sent:<BR>
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</ronleach@tesco.net></span><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #F5F5F5 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">List, good morning,<BR>
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Recently purchased a new laptop which uses the Broadcom BCM 43142 <BR>
chipset and, though I can run the live F22 XFCE spin, Fedora doesn't <BR>
see the WiFi device. The laptop does not have a wired Ethernet port <BR>
and so, without the WiFi, there's no connectivity. I'd like some help <BR>
in locating a suitable driver for the WiFi chipset, and also a clue <BR>
how to install it whilst without connectivity.<BR>
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The laptop is an HP Stream 11 Notebook PC, and is limited to:<BR>
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32GB MMC SDD HD,<BR>
2 x USB,<BR>
WiFi BCM 43142<BR>
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<a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fh20195.www2.hp.com%2Fv2%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fcc%3Die%26lc%3Den%26oid%3D8245635" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/default.aspx\?cc=ie&lc=en&oid=8245635</span></a><BR>
(The label beneath the laptop advises that the radio is BCM943142HM.) <BR>
The F22 boot log file doesn't record the chipset (as far as I can <BR>
see) but a live version of another distro identified the chipset as <BR>
Broadcom 43142.<BR>
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On searching, some users suggest that an appropriate driver may be <BR>
available in the 'fusion' repository, but the procedure suggested <BR>
requires connectivity, which I don't have without the WiFi working:<BR>
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<a href="parse.pl?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fask.fedoraproject.org%2Fen%2Fquestion%2F43146%2Ffedora-20-not-detecting-wifi-cardbroadcom-43142-wireless-lan-adapter-of-sony-vaio%2F" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/43146/fedora-20-not-detecting-wifi-cardbroadcom-43142-wireless-lan-adapter-of-sony-vaio/</span></a><BR>
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Searches also return problem fixes for other distros, involving a <BR>
'Broadcom STA' driver, at 'kernel level', a phrase I don't understand <BR>
and I have no experience of.<BR>
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If I could download the driver (using another machine which does have <BR>
connectivity), I could then copy the driver onto an SD card which <BR>
could be read by F22/XFCE on the HP Stream notebook. But I do not <BR>
know how to install the driver from an SD card into Fedora when <BR>
running XFCE live (nor when Fedora/XFCE is fully installed, which I <BR>
hope to do after this trial).<BR>
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I'll look out for any replies; I really would be grateful for any <BR>
thoughts,<BR>
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regards, Ron<BR>
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