How I configured Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g driver on my old HP laptop with Fedora

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