[CentOS] Upgrade to CentOS 6.5 -> issue with Broadcom Wifi

[wwp]

Again,


On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:26:19 +0100 wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> I was running CentOS 6.4 system on my Dell Latitude E6530 flawlessly,
> until I upgraded to CentOS 6.5.
> 
> Now the wifi doesn't show up (it's a Broadcom Wifi BT4313, 14e4:4727), I
> tried to follow the steps from http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom
> but when attempting to compile the Broadcom driver module, the make
> command fails in a way that is not described on this web page. Anyway,
> the page deals w/ CentOS5 without being specific.
> 
> I tried w/ both hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112.tar.gz (the one
> which *I think* was formerly installed) and the latest available:
> hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_141.tar.gz; same compilation
> errors (see below).
> 
> I simply could not remember how I had the Broadcom Wifi chip working
> since CentOS 6.x, but I clearly remember that I had to install
> the driver (I presume from the sources since I've found them in my
> setup archives, but not sure). I have the following RPM's installed:
>   b43-openfwwf-5.2-4.el6.noarch
>   b43-fwcutter-012-2.2.el6.x86_64
> 
> I wonder if the kernel update breaks it.. Does any one have experience
> with this driver and CentOS 6.5?

More data:

it seems that I had formerly followed steps from http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod,
as I could find kmod-wl-5_100_82_112-9.el6.el6.local.x86_64.rpm installed locally,
and RPM assembly stuff in ~/rpmbuild/.

No better idea why it doesn't work since CentOS 6.5, unfortunately!


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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