On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 17:27 +0000, Michael D. Berger wrote:
I have a Broadcom 802.11b/g hardware on my dual-boot laptop. Note first that in the WinXP partition, the wifi makes DHCP connections to my router with no problem. Since this was not working in my new CentOS 6 partition, and remembering that there was a driver problem with the old Fedora partition it replaced, I followed instructions founs at:
http://repecka.net/en/2011/04/19/install-broadcom-bcm4311-802-11bg-wlan- drivers-on-centos/
and
http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt
modifying for that fact that I use wlan0 rather than eth1. The wifi is now dead-in-the-water. The wlan light now remains red, and neither ifconfig nor iwconfig show any sign of wlan0 (contra to the situation before I installed the new driver). It still works in the WinXP partition.
Suggestions for my next step in fixing this would be most welcome.
Thank, Mike.
Maybe you need to install the firmware? My laptop still uses the b43 driver but not entirely w/o issue.
# yum search b43
<snip> ================================= Matched: b43 ================================= b43-fwcutter.x86_64 : Firmware extraction tool for Broadcom wireless driver b43-tools.x86_64 : Tools for the Broadcom 43xx series WLAN chip b43-openfwwf.noarch : Open firmware for some Broadcom 43xx series WLAN chips compat-db43.i686 : The Berkeley DB database 4.3.29 compatibility library compat-db43.x86_64 : The Berkeley DB database 4.3.29 compatibility library
HTH
B.J. CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)