i should be working (but i'm fixing my computer).

There are things that it is impossible to remember.

...

I've been dealing with the linux broadcom wireless drivers over a fairly long period of time, with different solutions.  Oh, remember Ndiswrapper?

So, I was setting up a computer for one of my daughter's friends and for the life of me I could not remember what to do.  Lots 'o research later, the hint was "/usr/bin/install_bcm43xx_firmware".  Which in my case did not really work, as the command must not be lurking in /usr/bin.  But, "install_bcm43xx_firmware" worked just fine (retrieves and does whatever with the necessary drivers.)

Yay.

(Maybe I will find my own note about this again the next time I need the info ...)