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+Infrast...
License     : Redistributable, no modification permitted
Description : This package contains the license, README.txt and
configuration
            : files for the Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA Driver
for WiFi, a Linux
            : device driver for use with Broadcom's BCM4311-,
BCM4312-, BCM4313-,
            : BCM4321-, BCM4322-, BCM43142-, BCM43224-,
BCM43225-, BCM43227-,
            : 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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