I have a laptop, it’s a Dell Inspiron 15 [3000 Series] who’s wireless doesn’t work out the box.
This is how I installed the driver to get it working.
1, check which model of Broadcome you have
[paulmellors@sheldon ~]$ lspci | grep Network
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
[paulmellors@sheldon ~]$
2. Install RPM Fusion for your system from here
3. Install broadcom-wl
[root@sheldon paulmellors]# dnf install broadcom-wl
Reboot, and your wireless should be available now.
I use the i3 window manager, so I had to also install the network-manager-applet so I could load nm-applet, but it worked once I’d added the comment to the i3 config.
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How is it working for you? I have a user that has a laptop with that chipset in it and the network connection keeps dropping out intermittently. You probably only have a single AP that you’re connecting to, right? I’m wondering if it’s a roaming problem.
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Hello Samuel, apologies for the delay. yes i’m only connecting to one AP point, and it’s working fine for me to be honest, never had an issue with it….
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