On 04/12/17 00:38, John R Pierce wrote:
On 12/3/2017 4:22 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
I have not been able to get it to work Centos 7.4 machine. Some of the centos user posts had indicated the nux repsitory had a Centos 7 kmod- wl, but it is not present when I tried to search or or install it at this time.
this looks potentionally helpful
http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
it appears those are closed source drivers with funky licenses, so they can't just be redistributed without assumption of liability.
Correct, elrepo isn't able to freely redistribute the drivers due Broadcom's licensing, but does provide instructions and a SRPM (minus tarball) for you to build yourself.
Alternatively, for $8 you can purchase an adaptor that is natively supported and will work out of the box:
https://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-150Mbps-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MT...
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315091&cm_re=e...
The above adaptor is based on the Realtek RTL8188CUS chipset and uses the rtl8192cu kernel driver.