I'm using CentOS 5 (w/all latest updates as of 2008-01-06) on an HP laptop -- in fact, the exact laptop described here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/HP/Pavilion-ze5300_Series
Ever since I switched from SHARED to OPEN authentication (and hence from using ndiswrapper to the bcm43xx module, as explained on that wiki page), I've been having packet loss and/or collision on the wireless device, to the point that recently I've needed to plug in to a wired network in order to get yum updates. I'd like to try installing a newer version of the driver, but I'm having a fail on searching for the sources; I don't want to build an entire new kernel.
Does anyone have a pointer to those driver sources or better yet to a DKMS or similar package for them?
The bcm43xx is no longer maintained, and it is my understanding that it will not be replaced in the RHEL 5 kernel.
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
Barry