I have an Acer laptop with an AMD Quad-Core processor and a Broadcom Corporation BCM43227 802.11b/g/n wireless adapter. I had not performed updates for a while so tonight, I ran a manual update and a new kernel and lots of other packages got installed (over 100 for sure). A reboot of my laptop and subsequent login found me with no wireless.
To make a long story short, I did some Googling on my cell phone and noticed a number of posts about having to install package akmod-wl. The posts indicated that if rpmfusion was installed, this package should fix it. Installing and a reboot was all that I needed to get wireless back and running.
This is one of those cases where using additional repositories might get you into trouble. Hope this helps someone else and hope I don't need to use it again.
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