How to use Broadcom wifi on Fedora and openSUSE

Good Linuxeros.

It's been a couple of days since I installed openSUSE and the question was:

How do I make my Wifi?

In all the distros that I have seen the wifi gives me problems (except for Ubuntu and Mint), so I thought I would post the solutions I found for Fedora y openSUSE.

openSUSE:

All you have to do is put the following command in the terminal:

sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware (this installs the firmware)

(Note: I don't know if it works on other distros)

Source: Taringa

fedora:

For Fedora it is somewhat more complex:

su
lspci
yum install wget && wget http://downloads.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
b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta_mimo.o 
rmmod b43 
modprobe b43
 

And the wifi should work.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGEcOafriMY

I hope this is useful, regards.


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  1.   creel said

    Interesting about the opensuse script for b43. I don't know if you have that hardware but broadcom owners are definitely doing much better, in fact, I don't know if you have noticed but it is what I think you propose for fedora.

    The broadcom-wl for opensuse are in packman, from opensuse 11.2 to tumbleweed and even for the different opensuse kernels.

    http://packman.links2linux.org/package/broadcom-wl

    Likewise, there are many other third-party repositories that also have them, but I recommend those from packman. That repo can be added from YaST or simply with the 1 click install that is in the upper right part of the linked web.

    Here I leave an additional guide for additional wireless.

    http://opensuse-guide.org/wlan.php

    Also, if you have to use other wireless devices like USB adapters on desktop PCs, the kernel-firmware package contains almost everything you would need.

    1.    Zironide said

      The truth is that the proprietary driver is the only one that I have been able to make it work, I have already tried in Debian, Fedora, Arch among others and it is the only one that I have managed to make work.

    2.    VaryHeavy said

      Indeed, as Krel says, with the Packman repository configured, simply install the "broadcom-wl" package. Then to restart the machine, and everything goes smoothly. I use Broadcom wireless and have been using it in OpenSUSE for 2 years without problems.

      The exposed method for Fedora is identical to what I had to do in Mandriva 2011, removing the last two commands.

  2.   Matias said

    In fedora, if they have the rpm-fusion repository configured (Like 99% of mortals), they just have to install the kmod-wl package. 😉

    1.    Zironide said

      +1

    2.    Israel said

      Good afternoon, I have a problem with this method, everything is installed well, but when I restart it, I no longer have it, I can only use the wiring and I am a newbie to linux.

    3.    Victor Flores placeholder image said

      of all the solutions that I had found, this was the only one that helped me ... thank you very much

  3.   Ogalean said

    thank you very much .. excellent contribution