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Enabling wireless connection in Lenovo G550 with OS fedora 16

Today i have enabled wireless in my Lenovo G550. Please note down the steps for enabling this.

[root@localhost src]# lspci
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

[root@localhost src]# dmesg | grep 04:00.0
[ 0.167848] pci 0000:04:00.0: [14e4:4315] type 0 class 0x000280

From this we can identify PCI-ID for my broadcom hardware is 14e4:4315

For enabling we need to install wget and b43-fwcutter

# yum install b43-fwcutter

#[root@localhost src] export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"

#[root@localhost src] wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2

#[root@localhost src]# tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2

#[root@localhost src]# b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o

Thats it my broadcom wireless got recognised in the fedora .....:-)