Quoting Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net:
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:52 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
Quoting Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net:
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 19:41 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
I have a Dell laptop that I believe has the same card. The CentOS 5 kernel did not appear to support it, but the RHEL 5.1 (and subsequently upon its release) the CentOS 5.1 kernel does support it. You will need
to
drop the firmware into /lib/firmware .. I believe this is a bcm43xx
card.
Barry
Thanks Barry, In view of what you say about CentOS 5.1 supporting this card, I think I'm going to wait until it's released - hope that won't be too long. Any other possible solutions (eg like using ndiswrapper) look far too complicated for a linux newbie like me! I hope that I'll be able to update the kernel without having to do a complete re-install. In the meantime I'm just going to have to use MS Windows XP (I have dual-boot on this laptop) for any wireless networking.
I was using ndiswrapper for this card until RHEL 5.1's kernel picked it up.
I
noticed that it now found an 'eth1' interface that didn't exist before. ndiswrapper does work, but has somewhat occasional crashes most likely due
to
RHEL's 4k stack size that is not really compatible with ndiswrapper. I
agree,
you should wait until the CentOS 5.1 kernel comes out because assuming you
and
I have the same card, all you need is the firmware .. and it will work
without
further issue.
Barry
I've now upgraded the kernel to CentOS 2.6.18-8.1.15.e15, so assume my OS is now effectively CentOS 5.1. However, I'm afraid I'm still at a bit of a loss as to how it supports my Dell laptop wireless card (bcm43xx card?), as it's still not listed in the list of supported adapters in Network Config. Can anybody please suggest where I go from here?
Thanks, Andy
You are still on the CentOS 5 kernel, not the CentOS 5.1 kernel. The base RHEL 5 kernel is kernel-2.6.18-53.el5 and the most recent is kernel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5. I don't believe CentOS 5.1 is out yet, but I've not checked today.
Barry