fedora18: Wireless Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n

[Dario Lesca]

Hi, My netbook Asus have this network Wireless controller:
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
>    Subsystem: AzureWave Device 2107
>    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
>    Memory at f7d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
>    Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>    Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
>    Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>    Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>    Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>    Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
>    Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-d9-ff-ff-09-6c-71
>    Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>

and not work out of the box or with rpmfusion's wl driver.

For now I have found this howto:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-282334.html

and with this procedure:
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-282334.html
>
> set -x
> dtmp=$(mktemp -d)
>
> # wget -c http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-bcm43142/wireless-bcm...
> rpm -q dpkg || yum install dpkg
>
> dpkg-deb -x wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19-1_amd64.deb $dtmp
>
> cd $dtmp/usr/src/wireless-bcm43142-6.20.55.19/
>
> make API=WEXT
>
> mkdir -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/wl
> rm -f /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/wl/wl.ko
> cp ./wl.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/wl/.
>
> depmod -a
>
> modprobe -r wl
> sleep 2
> ip a
>
> modprobe wl
> sleep 2
> ip a
>
> cd
> rm -rf $dtmp

the wl driver work fine.

My question is: There is an official Fedora driver (embedded, akmod or
kmod) for this (bcp43142) wireless network card?

Thanks.

[Sérgio Basto]

On Ter, 2013-04-02 at 03:05 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
> and not work out of the box or with rpmfusion's wl driver.

I believe this is a question for rpmfusion ML