Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11

[Martín Marqués]

2009/6/23 Christopher A. Williams <chriswfedora at cawllc.com>
>
> I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been
> able to get WiFi to come up on at all.
>
> Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a
> Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the
> other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter.
>
> In each case, the default F11 B43 drivers simply don't work at all. I
> also have tried the kmod-wl / broadcom-wl drivers from RPM Fusion. No
> Dice.
>
> This is really starting to irritate me!!!! It's almost to the point that
> I'm ready to rip these adapters out of these machines and replace them
> with Intel ones if I can find some that will fit.

Details are needed. Some broadcom cards won't work.

Give us the output of lspci -vv (only the specific to the wifi card).

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