Okay, life at the lake house got interesting yesterday.

I installed Fedora 12 (i686 PAE version) on an HP laptop. Unlike Ubuntu, which loaded and configured the broadcom wireless card without error, Red Hat's anaconda was a real pain in the butt. I found that there is a PAE kernel module for the broadcom wireless card. Once installed, and module loaded (I rebooted just to be sure that I was done with configuration), all was well.

So, what did I do?

sudo yum search broadcom

Okay, so there is a buttload of files. The good news is that you only need to install the kernel module relevant to your Kernel (32bit, PAE , or 64bit).

sudo yum install kmod-wl-PAE

How easy was that?