Andrew Allen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 20:06 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
>> Andrew Allen wrote:
>>> I've just installed CentOS 5.3 on my Dell laptop and it seems to have
>>> detected and set-up my wireless card (BCM 4311) correctly as eth1.
>>> However, so far I haven't been able to activate it and have read the
>>> wiki
>>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless#head-320d6fcf09b7e16e0b15d19ef76adcb023a95938
>>> which indicates that this card isn't actually supported in CentOS - but
>>> there has been an improvement over earlier kernels because the card
>>> wasn't even detected in CentOS 5.0. So do I need to get the Windows
>>> driver from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php and do
>>> I need ndiswrapper as well?
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>> That's not a Windows driver, it's a native Linux driver that you sould
>> download and compile for your kernel. Being a native Linux driver, it
>> doesn't require ndiswrapper. The ndiswrapper section is the next section
>> on that Wiki page and is unrelated (is it confusing?).
>>
>> I believe this topic was also discussed recently on this mailing list (a
>> few months back iirc).
>>
> Thanks,
> You don't happen to know when that was do you? It would be great to
> benefit from somebody else's experience, if they've managed to get this
> card working in CentOS (5.3). Trouble is, the instructions in the
> readme.txt on the Broadcom website obviously aren't CentOS specific. In
> the past I've installed additional stuff (eg skype) from repos using
> yum, which works brilliantly - I'm a bit wary of trying to install by
> other means!
>
> Andy
>
Here you go:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079638.html
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