Step-by-step – Fedora 30 Broadcom Wl Wi-fi Driver Offline Installation

December 30, 2019 | By the+gnu+linux+evangelist.

Installing

  1. 3. Launching Terminal

    Open a Shell Session
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    Open Terminal
  2. 4. Trasferring Packages

    First, copy the downloaded Stuff on a removable USB Drive
    Next, copy Broadcom Wl and Kernel Devel into Fedora 30 System
    First, access the USB Key:

    cd [/path/2/usb]/

    But if you are in Trouble to Find it out on Terminal then See: How to Access USB Device.
    And Copy the Archives into the Downloads Folder:

    cp kmod-wl*.tar.gz kernel-devel*.rpm ~/Downloads/
  3. 5. Extracting Broadcom Wl Archive

    Then Extract Broadcom Wl into /tmp Directory
    If it does Not Open automatically then Double-Click on File Manager

    Extracting
    Or from Command Line:

    tar xvzf ~/Downloads/kmod-wl*.tar.gz

    And then to remove the Tar Archive:

    rm ~/Downloads/kmod-wl*tar.gz
  4. 6. Installing Broadcom Wl Driver

    Now to Install Broadcom Wl Driver
    Access the Downloads Folder:

    cd ~/Downloads

    And move the kernel-devel Package into the Driver’s Folder:

    mv kernel-devel*.rpm kmod-wl*/

    Change to the Folder with:

    cd kmod-wl*/

    And finally, to Setup the kmod-wl Broadcom Driver play:

    sudo rpm -ivh ./*.rpm

    Authenticate with the User Admin Pass.
    If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo.

    achieved setup

    Possibly, Reboot you System to load it into the running Kernel:

    sudo reboot

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