How to setup wifi on fedora workstation11/9/2023 ![]() The Synaptics parts are a work in progress. ![]() The Broadcom status is indeterminate as to whether we care. So in summary the Infineon/Cypress parts are in reasonable shape and will move to good shortly. Their parts are becoming more common now the flip out of Broadcom is complete but they've also acquired a bunch of silicon IP from other companies of late including marvell so it all seems to be a little in flux. They don't believe their parts are used in Linux at all so it's a combination of education and trying to find the right person in the right division to educate. The Synaptics parts are still a work in progress. They're working to get the BT firmware upstream too but we're not quite there yet. They now update the WiFi firmware for their parts quite regularly, we've had two releases since we came up wit the plan, they ship generic countries blob for the FW so the wifi will work, if not to the highest strength for country specific devices but it works and works pretty well. The Broadcom IP which was in devices like the RPi-400 and Pinebook Pro is now part of Synaptics.Ĭypress is now part of Infineon and I have a good relationship with them and thankfully the acquisition didn't break that. Now I believe a lot of the high value customers have moved onto other vendors so outside of Apple I don't know how many newer laptops have Broadcom chips and which ones they are if any. ![]() It's even worse than that as all three companies Broadcom/Infineon/Synaptics produce WiFi/BT modules based on the same IP.īroadcom sold the "IoT division" to Cypress while keeping their "high value customers" (AKA Apple, Dell and related), then a few years later they sold their "IoT division" to Synaptics while keeping their "high value customers" (sound familiar). My guess is the old stuff is with Cypress and the new stuff is with Synaptics. We can at least generate some bad news coverage for Broadcom and help Fedora users figure out how to get online. If everyone installing Fedora with Broadcom wireless sees the executive contact information, and 1% of the users who see it act on it, who knows: might work. (Clearly I haven't done any research as to how this works.) I would also provide an aggressive message saying that wireless network access is restricted by Broadcom per Broadcom company policy and to please consider complaining, and display some executive contact information. Given the constraint that we can't distribute the firmware, we should at least be able to detect that the firmware is missing and provide some manual installation instructions: go to such and such website on another computer, download the file, store it on a USB drive, etc. Ideally we would handle this a bit better. ![]() Wifi doesn't work, and users have no indication why and no instructions as to what to do about it. Currently when users install Fedora on laptops with Broadcom wireless, the user experience is very poor. ![]()
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