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

[Alan Cox]

>  I think the reason why Broadcom's firmware is not in Fedora is
>  because Broadcom does not provide (VHDL, Verilog or whatever)
>  source code for the firmware, and Fedora.org wants source code
>  for everything in it distributes.

You think wrongly.

There is lots of firmware included in Fedora for which you most certainly
don't have any source, and indeed in some cases the nature of firmware
being what it is there may not really be as its just tables.