Broadcom wireless on Fedora 11

Sometimes after installing Fedora 11, people face a strange issue that the wireless got disabled and doesn't get detected. Here is the solution that I found for Broadcom wireless.

• Make sure you have include Livna and RPM Fusion repositories. If not, then add them by running the below command

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm

• Now install the broadcom driver using the below command

yum install broadcom-wl

• After you have successfully installed the broadcom driver, install the wireless kernel module using the below command

yum install kmod-wl

• Now we will insert the broadcom wireless modules. Run the below commands

/sbin/insmod /lib/modules//kernel/net/wireless/lib80211.ko
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/<Your_Kernel_Version>/extra/wl/wl.ko

• Now run modprobe to search for detect for the new hardware.

This will mosty be working......