Bad news, the first result returned by google, the 'official' website of broadcom wireless, did not work at all. The link is
Note. above links has some informational info about bring up bcm4312 indeed, but the steps on the website did not work.
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Good news, it is really very simple to have the chipset working on fedora core16. Three simple commands:
#1. su -c 'rpm -Uvh '
#2. yum update
#3. yum install kmod-wl
Above commands should be fine if there is another active link exists, say on laptop or desktop machine. Actually the key package is the kmod-wl package, which will install 'wl.ko' and another package 'broadcom-wl' will blacklist 'b43.ko' etc.
But what if the target has no other ethernet links, say the chipset happens to live in a some all-built-in devices like pad stuff, then that will you to goto ' pkgs.org/search/ ' to download two packages:
The last note is, pick appropriate packages according to kernel version.
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