List Archives & Broadcom Wireless

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Mar 12 19:52:53 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 18:59 -0600, Brian Hanks wrote:
> I've been testing pre-release versions of Fedora and Redhat for a long 
> time, but I'm finding it to be a bit more difficult lately.  I've moved 
> from a primarily desktop based existence to one where I have several 
> laptops and just a few desktops.  Consequently, my Fedora Test machine 
> is a laptop, and unfortunately it uses a Broadcom wireless chip.  Since 
> RPMFusion doesn't keep up with the Test releases,

Actually, RPMFusion has a 'rawhide' repo which is in fact currently
tracking F13. Use that.

or, as Jon suggested, try the open firmware for b43, it works acceptably
for several chipsets now.
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