List, good morning,

Recently purchased a new laptop which uses the Broadcom BCM 43142
chipset and, though I can run the live F22 XFCE spin, Fedora doesn't
see the WiFi device. The laptop does not have a wired Ethernet port
and so, without the WiFi, there's no connectivity. I'd like some help
in locating a suitable driver for the WiFi chipset, and also a clue
how to install it whilst without connectivity.

The laptop is an HP Stream 11 Notebook PC, and is limited to:

32GB MMC SDD HD,
2 x USB,
WiFi BCM 43142

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/default.aspx\?cc=ie&lc=en&oid=8245635
(The label beneath the laptop advises that the radio is BCM943142HM.)
The F22 boot log file doesn't record the chipset (as far as I can
see) but a live version of another distro identified the chipset as
Broadcom 43142.

On searching, some users suggest that an appropriate driver may be
available in the 'fusion' repository, but the procedure suggested
requires connectivity, which I don't have without the WiFi working:

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/43146/fedora-20-not-detecting-wifi-cardbroadcom-43142-wireless-lan-adapter-of-sony-vaio/

Searches also return problem fixes for other distros, involving a
'Broadcom STA' driver, at 'kernel level', a phrase I don't understand
and I have no experience of.

If I could download the driver (using another machine which does have
connectivity), I could then copy the driver onto an SD card which
could be read by F22/XFCE on the HP Stream notebook. But I do not
know how to install the driver from an SD card into Fedora when
running XFCE live (nor when Fedora/XFCE is fully installed, which I
hope to do after this trial).

I'll look out for any replies; I really would be grateful for any
thoughts,

regards, Ron
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