Fedora 18 No Wireless

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Just installed Fedora 18 and I can't get the wireless to work.
What do I have and what have I done?

I have a Broadcom BCM4312 which is supported by the broadcom-wl driver. (link)

lspci | grep Network
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

I have installed the driver and the kernel modules for it:

rpm -qa | grep -e '-wl' | sort
akmod-wl-5.100.82.112-7.fc18.4.i686
broadcom-wl-5.100.82.112-4.fc18.noarch
kmod-wl-3.7.4-204.fc18.i686-5.100.82.112-7.fc18.8.i686

The kernel:

uname -r
3.7.4-204.fc18.i686

I have loaded the module

modprobe wl

lsmod | sort | grep wl
cfg80211              171182  1 wl
lib80211               13684  1 wl
wl                   2465403  0

And even removed the ssb module, which I read on couple forums.
Restarted the service, and even rebooted:

service NetworkManager restart

After all these, the wireless card is still not visible. What am I missing?

Best Answer

I was originally running kernel 3.7.4-204.fc18.i686 with kmod-wl-3.7.4-204.fc18.i686-5.100.82.112-7.fc18.8.i686 and the wireless had issues. After 2 more updates of the kernel it just works fine.

So this is what I have running and working good now:

sly@localhost ~$ uname -r
3.7.6-201.fc18.i686
sly@localhost ~$ rpm -qa | grep -e '-wl' | sort
akmod-wl-5.100.82.112-7.fc18.4.i686
broadcom-wl-5.100.82.112-4.fc18.noarch
kmod-wl-3.7.6-201.fc18.i686-5.100.82.112-7.fc18.10.i686
sly@localhost ~$ lsmod | sort | grep wl
cfg80211              171182  1 wl
lib80211               13684  2 wl,lib80211_crypt_tkip
wl                   2465403  0
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