Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running on CentOS 5? I find lots of references to using fwcutter to get the needed firmware from Windows drivers, but there's a Catch-22:
Version of fwcutter that generate files for the bcm43xx driver in CentOS 5 don't recognize the md5sum of any currently available Windows driver.
Newer versions of fwcutter do recognize my Windows XP driver files, but generate output in a newer format that is not compatible with the bcm43xx driver.
I've been searching and fighting this for quite some time. I have a Fedora 10 installation that runs the wireless just fine on that laptop (Lenovo 3000 N200), but I really hate the churn and instability of Fedora. I was hoping that CentOS 5.3 might include a backported b43 driver, but I grabbed a preliminary version of the new kernel (2.6.18-132), and it still has the old bcm43xx.ko driver.