[CentOS] CentOS 5 and Broadcom wireless

[Daniel de Kok]

On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 11:16 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On 5/12/07, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> > FC6 is on kernel 2.6.20 currently, and CentOS 5 is at 2.6.18.  It is highly
> > likely that the 2.6.20 bcm43xx driver will not be backported to 2.6.18 by
> > RedHat; whether it even CAN be backported to 2.6.18 is questionable.
> 
> So evidently I need to install ndiswrapper.  Any recommended places to
> download an RPM or a .src.rpm?  RPMforge has one that requires dkms
> which in turn seems to mean that I have to compile something even
> after I install the .noarch.rpm, and if that's the case I'd rather
> just build it directly from the source.

It may be useful to know that (normally) DKMS packages will
automatically compile the module post-install, and after each kernel
update.

-- Daniel