Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

[Suresh Govindachar]

  Bruno Wolff III wrote: 
  >On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:10:24 +0000,
  >  Suresh Govindachar <sgovindachar at yahoo.com> wrote:
  >> 
  >> But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux
  >> on: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php (such
  >> support has existed since October 2008.)
  >
  >Because they don't let people redistribute their firmware.

  They do;  that's why they have the linux_sta.php page linked above.
   
  > Also note that some Broadcom wireless devices are supported
  > out of the box on Fedora using free firmware developed by a
  > third party.

  The ones on rpmfusion.org use the firmware from the above broadcom.com page.

  --Suresh