How to use Broadcom wifi on Fedora and openSUSE

Good Linuxeros.

I installed openSUSE a couple of days ago and the question was:

How do I get my Wi-Fi working?

In all the distros I've seen, the wifi gives me problems (except for Ubuntu and Mint), so I thought I'd publish the solutions I found for Fedora and 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 will work 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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