Wifi broadcom drivers

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I’ve only worked on Silverblue with my LAN. But I want to install broadcom drivers. Does anybody have an idea?

I’ve looked in google…; I didn’t find a suitable solution for it.

Thx and Regards

Andi

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Out-of-tree kernel modules is still a problem. This is not just Nvidia.

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In-tree kernel modules are also a problem, for example, amdgpu. It is moving rapidly and few people are testing it on anything other than Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I’ve got nagging problems on a five-year-old AMD card that I have to troubleshoot every time I get a kernel update and this is supposed to be “pure open source”. :frowning:

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Well, but there is still no solution for Wifi broadcom drivers? It depends on kernel modules…; I know that broadcom drivers are supported by RPM-Fusion - but I’m not sure how to integrate/compile it to Silverblue

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So, did you find a solution?

Thanks

Bishop

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No, unfortunatly I haven’t found a solution yet. :frowning:

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Silverblue now supported akmods, and off the top of my head I want to say the Broadcom drivers have been rebuilt with the Silverblue changes as well.

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That’s great to know :slight_smile: thx!

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Hi,

I have a MacBook Pro 8,2 with a Broadcom BCM4331. I’ll paste here my notes how I made it work in my Fedora Silverblue 29.

I hope it helps you!
Jorge

# Enable rpmfusion nonfree tainted repo
# 
# rpmfusion Nonfree Tainted:
#   Software that uses a nonfree license and which is not explicitly redistributable, but is allowed for inter-operability purposes in some countries.
#    Example: b43-firmware, nouveau-firmware, dvb-firmware.
# More info at https://rpmfusion.org/FAQ
# - https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/html/2017/12/23/using_b43_firmware_on_fedora_atomic_workstation.html
# - https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices
# - https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx
# - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx
rpm-ostree install rpmfusion-nonfree-release-tainted
# Reboot

# Install b4331 firmware from rpmfusion nonfree tainted repo
rpm-ostree install b43-firmware
# Reboot

# The net-tools package contains basic networking tools,
# including ifconfig, netstat, route, and others.
rpm-ostree install net-tools
# Reboot

# Fixing wireless connection drop problems on Broadcom BCM43XX
- https://linux-tips.com/t/fixing-wireless-connection-drop-problems-on-broadcom-bcm43xx/74
echo "options b43 qos=0 nohwcrypt=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/wireless.conf

# I had to do this to connect to the Minions network
# - Fix "WPA: Failed to configure IGTK to the driver" (unable to connect to Minions)
# - https://fedoramagazine.org/troubleshoot-pmf-f28/
nmcli connection modify  Minions wifi-sec.pmf disable
nmcli connection up  Minions
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I spoke to the maintainer of kmod-wl on RPMFusion a couple of weeks ago and he updated the package.

I installed them on SB30 today and they seem to work.