This is good to know. I do wonder why I have had to let the machines I
have installed 11.10 on, be connected to the Internet when installing to
get the Broadcom built in WiFi cards to work. I have a USB WiFi card I
use to set people up. Without it WiFi using Broadcom has been a problem.
My guess is because of the proprietary nature of the drivers.

So you are not connected to the Internet in any other way and you get
them to work? That is cool.