[CentOS] BCM4313 on CentOS 6.3

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:08 AM,  <ottop at lavabit.com> wrote:

> but I stumbled into more problems with the rpm build. More info on the
> forum:
> https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=38251&forum=57

Why don't we continue this on the forums? People who are interested
can follow that thread.

>> Will you also show us the output returned by :
>>
>> lspci -nn | grep -i net
>>
>> I'd like to see the vendor:device pairing.
>
> Sure! For my Lenovo S10-3t:
>
> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780
> Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1692] (rev 01)
> 07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313
> 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)

The ID pairing [14e4:4727] indicates that it is supported by the bcma
driver offered by the kmod-compat-wireless package from ELRepo:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-compat-wireless

If this one works for you, you'd not have to go through building of
the wl module.

Akemi

P.S. All of this should have been done on the ELRepo mailing list. :)