I have the Lenovo Yoga 2 11s and after each Fedora major version upgrade the WiFi fails. This is due to Broadcom not having any free kernel modules so I need to install separately and as I never remember Im making a list, if you found your way here hopefully they will help you too.<\/p>\n
1) check you do actually have a broadcom device 2) install the RPM Fusion Repositories, they have some kernel modules we can use 3) install the dev kernel and wifi module 4) if you can, restart your device and enjoy wireless connectivity \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n if not, you can run the following to get connected without rebooting<\/p>\n 5) loading the module<\/p>\n dont worry, this is what we expected, this is just so you can see its failed and that its worked when you try again in a moment<\/p>\n now try to probe the module again<\/p>\n no error this time means its loaded, looking good<\/p>\n and you should now see your WiFi icon in the system tray and quick connection later and your ready to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have the Lenovo Yoga 2 11s and after each Fedora major version upgrade the WiFi fails. This is due to Broadcom not having any free kernel modules so I need to install separately and as I never remember Im making a list, if you found your way here hopefully they will help you too. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fedora WiFi on Lenovo Yoga","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[274,273,209],"tags":[314,315,311,308,309,313,312,310],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep -i broadcom
\n01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM43142 802.11b\/g\/n (rev 01)<\/code><\/p>\n
\n[root@localhost ~]# su -c 'dnf install https:\/\/download1.rpmfusion.org\/free\/fedora\/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https:\/\/download1.rpmfusion.org\/nonfree\/fedora\/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'<\/code><\/p>\n
\n[root@localhost ~]# dnf install kernel-devel-$(uname -r) akmod-wl<\/code><\/p>\n[root@localhost ~]# modprobe wl
\nmodprobe: FATAL: Module wl not found in directory \/lib\/modules\/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64<\/code><\/p>\n[root@localhost ~]# akmods --force
\nChecking kmods exist for 4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64 [ OK ]
\nBuilding and installing wl-kmod [ OK ]<\/code><\/p>\n[root@localhost ~]# modprobe wl
\n[root@localhost ~]# <\/code><\/p>\n[root@localhost ~]# systemctl restart NetworkManager<\/code><\/p>\n