[CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

Mark Weaver wrote:
> On 7/4/2011 10:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
>>> Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking
>>> around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't
>>> find one.
>>>
>>> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card
>>> in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver
>>> support for the WIFI.
>> I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390.
>> There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be
>> applicable to CentOS 6.
> 
> I took a look at the Fedora 15 live CD and it didn't have any idea what 
> to do with the WIFI chipset. As I recall it didn't even see it.
> 

Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, 
but there is howto, even for CentOS 5:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom

Ljubomir