It's quite alright.
At any rate, the fedora release packages would not have helped a lot,
because the crucial packages had to come from rpmfusion in order
to enable the functioning of the broadcom 4322 chipset.
Cheers,
JD
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 2:18 AM, Terry Polzin <foxec208(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 8:30 PM, JD <jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 01/25/2018 07:14 AM, Terry Polzin wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 8:38 AM, Terry Polzin <foxec208(a)gmail.com
>> <mailto:foxec208@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 8:35 PM, JD <jd1008(a)gmail.com
>> <mailto:jd1008@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/14/2018 02:22 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>> On 01/15/18 05:19, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>> kernel-devel x86_64 4.14.13-300.fc27
>> updates 12 M
>> kernel-headers x86_64 4.14.13-300.fc27
>> updates 1.2 M
>>
>>
>> Note these packages are from updates. If the laptop
>> system hasn't been updated one
>> can use....
>>
>> dnf --disablerepo updates --downloadonly
>> --downloaddir=/tmp install broadcom-wl
>>
>> to get....
>>
>> kernel-devel x86_64 4.13.9-300.fc27 fedora
>> 11 M
>> kernel-headers x86_64 4.13.9-300.fc27 fedora
>> 1.2 M
>>
>> All done and installed and all is well on my friend's f27 laptop.
>> The snag I ran into had to do with the fact that the un-networked
>> laptop, while trying to install the broadcom rpm and the
>> dependencies,
>> kept throwing me a curve: dnf kep saying it was unable to sync
>> with the
>> repositories: updates, fedora, rpmfusion....
>>
>> How could it, since I was trying to install the very things
>> that WOULD
>> enable it to sync.
>> So, before I gave up, I added the command argument:
>> --disablerepo=*
>> and lo and behold all the rpms in question got installed, and
>> I rebooted,
>> and the network was on. Ran updates. All is well.
>>
>> Thanx a lot!!
>>
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>> JD
>>
>> I don't believe that the workstation ISO will have what you need,
>> as it is a netinstall image.
>> You will probably want the server image, I'm downloading that to
>> check it now.
>>
>>
>> JD
>>
>> The server iso has what you need,
>>
>> Yes you are right, but it is too late now :)
>
> I should have looked there myself :)
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Sorry for the delay JD got busy at the office -Terry
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