Any Gentoo gurus willing to help a noob?

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Well, actually, I'm using Sabayon and not Gentoo, but Sabayon is based on Gentoo, just a lot of the stuff is precompiled.

I can't figure out how to get the wifi working (story of my life with Linux). It's a Broadcom 4328 chipset.

I have the solution!

Get rid of that broadcom 4328!

Do you have one of those ports that you can insert a different wireless card in?

I would really love to trash this Broadcom PoS for something better, something that had open-source drivers and was well-supported. The Broadcom only woks out-of-the-box in OSX, even Windows had driver issues with it. I'm not sure if it's possible to do so, though. I'm on a laptop, a MacBook actually, and I don't think Apple left me any way to switch out wifi cards. I know it is possible to replace the RAM and the HD, but I'm not sure they left any other options open.

Someday, when this MacBook dies, I *will* get a nice computer with hardware that is all compatible with open-source software and switch to one of the Free Software Zealot's distros like GnuSense or pure Debian. I won't even dual-boot Windows on it.

Have you tried fwcutter?

I attempted to follow the instructions here, but none of the commands listed ever completed successfully- I got error messages about things not being valid package names, or that something was masked.

I assume the MacBook is of the intel variety by running windows on it, masked packages need to be unmasked in gentoo's package.keyword file I believe, I would suggest moving to a different distribution as gentoo as of late is losing steam, if you are after a advanced distribution, either Archlinux or Slackware may be suitable.

I believe the Bcm43xx driver for linux is not compatible with your broadcom4328. I think it has something to do with your computer being a mac. I don't got anything really to help ya out. I guess look here and see if you find anything useful http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

I had noticed that I couldn't find the BCM4328 on any list of supported wifi cards in Gentoo/Sabayon, and thought that might be the issue.

I might follow Daedalus's suggestion and switch over to Arch or slackware. At least I have a neighbor in the dorm who loves Arch. Sabayon was pretty sweet if not for the wifi and the fact that too much crap is installed by default. (I have to get Skype off my hard drive soon or I'll feel unclean)