You will need to find out if that's the B43 or the wl driver and install it from the repos via some method (e.g. usb-to-ethernet). Both Mint and Ubuntu use the same repo, and Ubuntu usually allows some non-free firmwares and drivers in their repos, Fedora doesn't.
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This, just use your phone connected via USB to connect your pc with the internet. After that, you ether need the non-open b43 firmware files for the open b43 driver to work or install the proprietary wl driver. Most distros e.g. OpenSuse TW show how to install the firmware files in the dmsg log ("sudo dmesg" in the terminal) It seems, that in fedora, you need to download the b43 firmware files from ``` http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware
You probably need a suitable kernel module to bring that wlan device up and running.