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Using the bcm43xx-fwcutter tool to install Broadcom firmware in Fedora.
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To use the bcm43xx driver which is part of the Fedora kernel, you need
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to extract the firmware which is part of the official MacOS, Windows,
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or Linux drivers.
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If your Fedora installation is dual-booting with MacOS or Windows, then
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you probably already have a suitable driver available. Otherwise, the
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README file contains a number of links from which you can download
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drivers. It shouldn't matter which one you use -- the kernel's bcm43xx
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driver ought to work with all of them.
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Having obtained the file from which you wish to extract the firmware,
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run this command as root. Replace '<DRIVERFILE>' with the actual name
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of the file, of course:
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bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware <DRIVERFILE>
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This will save the various firmware files into the /lib/firmware
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directory, from where the kernel can load them when necessary.
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