ASUS G750JX in Fedora

Playing with my ASUS G750J - fresh off the CentOS install, no networking interaces :(

New laptop, better run a new distro :) Fedora 20 beta did a great job of recognizing the on board nic, athough not the wireless. Apparently Broadcom isn't eager to release their stuff as open source, so nobody has it included. To install the broadcom wireless, add the rpmfusion repo's, and then run

yum install kmod-wl

This is a lspci from my laptop, fully functional in Fedora 20 beta.

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

There are several hardware specs for the G750 laptops; to make sure this applies to you, check device manager in the pre-installed Windows 8.1. Windows recognizes these as

broadcom 802.11ac
qualcomm AR8171/8175 gig eth


The sources I'm using to install the drivers in CentOS are

NIC
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx

Wifi
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php -> you will see in the readme.txt that some distros already have a driver - like the "yum install kmod-wl" for fedora/rhel/etc.

cisco vpn on windows 8.1 x64

you will google but this is what I did.

the problem is, after authentication, the vpn cannot establish itself. in device manager, the cisco network interface has a warning.

1 - reg key modification:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vpnva

Remove all characters that seem to be left over from a bad installation before "Cisco AnyConnect..." and save.

2 - uninstall cisco vpn and reboot (this actually doesn't touch the reg key)
3- follow instructions here http://www.citrix.com/go/lp/dne.html run winfix and then the dnupdate 
4 - reboot and install cisco vpn client
5 - run the vpn client, delete the device with the warning sign in device manager

you will see a valid device disabling and enabling itself when the vpn is establishing itself correctly.