Saturday, January 02, 2016

Enabling WiFi Broadcom42143 - Fedora 23

After many hours trying to enable the WiFi connectivity in my recently installed Fedora 23 / UEFI, I realized that is not so simply. But to help some users I posted this blog with the steps I made to enable it. 

  1. The most important is to disable the secure boot options from the BIOS. Just check out the following link:

    Source: http://linuxbsdos.com/2015/07/27/how-to-disable-secure-boot-on-a-lenovo-g50-laptop/
  2. Reboot
  3. Install the FREE and NON FREE RPM fusion repos

    sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-23.noarch.rpm

    sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-23.noarch.rpm

  4. Install the KMODS

    sudo dnf install kmod-wl akmod-wl
  5. Maybe will be need to reboot.
  6. The finally execute the following script:

    wget http://git.io/v443u -v -O fedora23_broadcom_wl_install.sh && sh ./fedora23_broadcom_wl_install.sh;

    If the file exists no longer, the try downloading the script from the following link:


 That's all. Maybe i forgot something, but to get good results I just googled: fedora 23 bcm43142.

Important: this might be useful, to add the RPMFusion Repos, check out the following link: http://www.2daygeek.com/top-things-to-do-after-installing-fedora-23/ 

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