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How to get Broadcom Wireless drivers running on Fedora 33 in 2021

How to get Broadcom Wireless drivers running on Fedora 33

As a recent Ubuntu switcher I struggled with this. On a 2015 Macbook Air in my case, this is how I got it working reliably.

Make sure your Fedora is either:

  • fully updated (won't work in outdated 33 as the kernel-devel package you download fromo the repo will have a newer version than your system's outdated kernel)
  • stable system (won't work in rawhide, again different repo kernel-devel version to your installed one)
  1. Use wired internet with an ethernet cable, or pair a phone as a hotspot over Bluetooth.

  2. Enable third party (non-free) repos with terminal command from here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/setup_rpmfusion/

  3. install akmod-wl (which includes broadcom-wl)

     sudo dnf install akmod-wl
    
     sudo akmods --force
    

reboot. done!

if it doesn't work:

check your kernel with

uname -r

it should show the same version as the kernel-devel version above.

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