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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