Moved from Windows To Fedora - Wifi doesn't work - broadcom BCM4352

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I have just moved from windows 10 to fedora 39. It looks great but my wifi card gets no driver.
I have tried many thinks until now but at the end no driver is attached to my card.

I have been able to get broadcom-wl from rpm fusion repo. It has been installed without issue but I don’t find wl in the list after executing following command lsmod |grep wl

broadcom-wl.noarch 6.30.223.271-22.fc39 @rpmfusion-nonfree

inxi -n
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter
driver: N/A
IF-ID-1: enp0s20u1c4i2 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A
mac: 16:94:6c:17:58:15

I don’t now if someone can help me ?! Thanks a lot, Frédéric

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Please post (as preformatted text) using
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the output of dnf list installed \*-wl and lspci | grep -iA4 network

Also tell us if you have an ethernet (wired) connection as a fall-back.

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Step 0) if possible, make sure your Fedora packages and vendor firmware are fully updated. This helps avoid wasting time on an issue that has already been fixed. As a long-time linux user, I find it important to have USB network, bluetooth, and wifi dongles to use when an install doesn’t support one of those devices.

Step 1) Check that your wl module didn’t get blacklisted by one the the previous attempts:

$ grep GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX /etc/default/grub
$ grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*

Step 2) capture some error messages

$ journalctl -b -g wl
$ journalctl -b -g wifi

Step 4) check for your system in the LHDB. There are often user comments that address problems specific to a particular system.

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Hi Jeff,
Thanks a lot for helping. See replies to your questions below.

dnf list installed *-wl
Paquets installés
akmod-wl.x86_64 6.30.223.271-49.fc39 @rpmfusion-nonfree
broadcom-wl.noarch 6.30.223.271-22.fc39 @rpmfusion-nonfree

lspci |grep -iA4 network
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4352 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)

Thanks again,
Fred

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Hello George,
Thanks a lot for time and help !

See my responses below :

My system is up to date, I have installed fedora 39 yesterday and updated the system. (using my phone usb cable to share internet)

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“rhgb quiet”
grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*
no output

mar 26 13:33:13 fedora NetworkManager[1081]: [1711456393.2908] Read config: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf (lib: 20-connectivity-fedora.conf, 90-broadcom-wl.conf) (run: 15-carrier-timeout.conf)

journalctl -b -g wifi
mar 26 13:33:13 fedora NetworkManager[1081]: [1711456393.3179] Loaded device plugin: NMWifiFactory (/usr/lib64/NetworkManager/1.44.2-1.fc39/libnm-device-plugin-wifi.so)

Thanks a lot again for helping !

Regards,

Frédéric

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Hi George,
I went on linux-hardware.org. I have an issue on my material.

Driver is not found or not configured.

The device is supported by kernel versions 4.1 and newer.

PCI 14e4:43b1:17aa:0623 »
/ 02-80-00 Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter network

Thanks again

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You are probably running into a conflict between Lenovo’s version of the BCM4352 and current linux kernels. Such issues are sometimes fixed in BIOS updates from the vendor.

Some LHDB probes for Lenovo Yoga 3 report “working” with different (I assume replacements for the original) wifi cards. Intel generally has good support for linux, so you should check to see if Intel models that work are still available for purchase.

See: [iFixit ]Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Wireless Card Replacement(Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Wireless Card Replacement - iFixit Repair Guide). Internet searches may give you some details of replacement wifi cards that work with linux.