Vreme: 11/08/2011 07:59 AM, Johan Vermeulen piše:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm trying to configure wireless card on a Dell Vostro 1540.
>
> I had a look at this site : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom?action=show
>
> wireless card :# /sbin/lspci | grep Broadcom
> 12:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
>
> I decided to follow the ELrepo instructions suggested on the site :
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
>
> because it would give me a clear and present rpm that I can use on different machines and that will survive kernel updates.
This is good choice many of us recommend as best solution.
Question: This is CentOS 6? i386 or x86_64?
>
> This all goes down without error messages.
You downloaded appropriate firmware and compiled all of it?
>
> After installing, there is a new entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules :
>
> # PCI device 0x14e4:0x4727 (wl)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="94:39:e5:dc:3a:cf", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"
>
> and there is now a blacklist-Broadcom.conf in /etc/modprobe.d/:
>
> blacklist b43
> blacklist b43legacy
> blacklist bcm43xx
> blacklist ssb
>
> So I think the driver works and the blacklist - issue that is reported on different sites is ok.
What does "iwlist" command give you?
Have you installed all other packages needed for wireless?
>
> I then made an entry in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts:
>
> vi ifcfg-eth1
Change the name to ifcfg-wlan0
>
> DEVICE="eth1"
Change to DEVICE="wlan0"
> #BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
> HWADDR="94:39:e5:dc:3a:cf"
> NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
> ONBOOT="yes"
> TYPE=Wireless
Add this:
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
Why is BOOTPROTO disabled?
>
> *The problem is* I'm not seeing any wireless networks.
>
<snip>
>
> I think I need to configure something else.
wpa-suplicant?
>
> I know a lot of you guys don't like NetworkManager but because it's a laptop I would like to use it.
>
> I hope I gave enough info, any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> greetings, James.
>
> Centos is here to stay, I'm sure.
>
> P.S. I don't have an English spell checker on this machine, sorry for language mistakes :=)
Do not worry about it, most native speaking English don't bother to
write correctly.
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