[CentOS] Broadcom Wifi Problem

[Michael D. Berger]

On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:49:11 +0200, Milos Blazevic wrote:
[...]
> Mike,
> 
> from what I can see in one of your earlier e-mails, you appear to be
> dealing with BCM4311, which is in my experience one of least problematic
> - worked out of the box on CentOS 6, however, ymmv. Anyway, it would be
> useful if we could see the output of:
> 
> lspci -nn
> 
> just to confirm the exact Broadcom chip.
> 
> Now, the manual at CentOS wiki used to be sufficent to make the WiFi
> work (as eth1 or wlan0, regardless - although I always configured it as
> eth1), sadly, this is not entirely true anymore. To be more precise, the
> latest driver from Broadcom site doesn't work at all on CentOS 5 (tested
> it not a month ago with BCM4311). So, in order to avoid paying to
> DriverGuide.com, I can either send you a older version of a driver, or
> you can download one from here:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/broadcom-sta/5.10.91.9.3-3
> 
> (I haven't tested the latter), and go through the installation manual
> step by step. I haven't read Gytis' manual, but it should work in pretty
> much the same was as the one on CentOS Broadcom Wiki - as he contributed
> to the Wiki :-)
> 
> Hopefully, I'll perform some more testing soon and remedy obsoleted
> parts of the Wiki page as soon as the time permits.
> 
> 
> P.S:
> And yes, you should leave NetworkManger manage your network connections
> for start, and stop meddling with wpa_supplicant and manual wireless
> configuration - it'll save you time and nervs. So, just run:
> 
> service network stop
> service NetworkManager start
> chkconfig network off
> chkconfig NetworkManager on

Downloading from the location that you suggest (which is an Ubunto
location), I got:
   broadcom-sta_5.10.91.9.3.orig.tar.gz
and running it:

# pwd
/root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386
# make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.i686'
  LD      /root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386/built-in.o
  CC [M]  /root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
/root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c: In 
function ‘wl_free’:
/root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:705: error: 
implicit declaration of function ‘schedule’
make[2]: *** [/root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/
wl_linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.i686'
make: *** [all] Error 2

So what is this ‘schedule’ thing?

Thanks,
Mike.