Broadcom Wireless adapters and kernel updates [SOLVED]

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> said:
> The problem is: it doesn't seem to work for me. When I reboot, the
> machine does not mention wireless at all. Not, that is, until I
> execute "sudo modprobe b43" from a regular user prompt. Then it
> finds the connection at once.

If you have install the "wl" module from a package, for example from
RPMfusion, it includes configuration to block b43 from loading (because
they conflict otherwise).  If you want to use b43, uninstall the wl
package(s) (e.g. "yum remove broadcom-wl").

-- 
Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>