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DaveH1 wrote:

Fedora 9 already includes the B43 driver for the Broadcomm wireless. All you need to do is get the firmware set up correctly. Only takes about 10 minutes.

 

First get the fwcutter app.

wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-011
make

Then get the driver file. Use fwcutter to extract the firmware files.

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta_mimo.o

You should now see the .fw files in the /lib/firmware/b43 folder. 

Reboot the system and the card will be detected.

Configure the connect parameters and you're ready to roll.

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