F15 and Broadcom BCM4313

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Apr 27 19:15:34 UTC 2011


Adam Williamson wrote:
> In addition to what Matt says, probably the best way to get it working
> in F15 for now (pragmatically speaking) is to install the proprietary
> 'wl' driver from a third party repository (the standard one has it
> packaged as kmod-wl / akmod-wl). That driver supports the chip in
> question and works, per multiple reports.

RPM Fusion should really be updating its kmod-staging. The package in RPM 
Fusion for F15 is ancient and won't even install. A current kmod-staging 
would bring Free support for this chipset instead of the proprietary one.

        Kevin Kofler



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