On Googling i reached this article HOWTO Use Broadcom Wireless Cards in Fedora 14/15/16 (fedoraforum.org) I will summarize on my steps 1) i know my chipset as BCM4312 2) so broadcom-wl is my driver (broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5) 3) Then as per the post executed the following commands yum install b43-fwcutter lsmod | sort wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta_mimo.o Then a reboot resolved my wireless