[Solved] Fedora 15 Wifi Problem

It seems that wifi adapter driver is missing in fedora 15 even in the DVD and the repository.
It can be installed from source. I learned compiling the source and realize that Compiling isn't Rocket Science.
Just follow the steps for

First you need to download Broadcom's IEEE 802.11 Driver from here

Go to folder - FileFactory.com

Check your architecture and download appropriate one.
Also download the patch file.

copy the downloaded files to home or any location u like.

Now comes compilation..

Open your favourite terminal and run the following commands

mkdir wifi
cd wifi
tar zxf ../hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_38.tar.gz
patch -p0 <../5_100_82_38.patch
make
sudo make install
sudo depmod -a
su -c 'echo "modprobe wl" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local'
sudo reboot

On any security issue, run all the above removing sudo after

su


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