On 06/11/2014 06:21 AM, HM Johnson wrote:
Hello CentOS admins.
I am an AIX admin bent on learning CentOS. Yesterday I downloaded CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso, burned a DVD and loaded it onto a Lenovo IdeaPad N585 laptop. All went well, except for getting the integrated wireless to work. Here is some info and what I tried so far.
# lspci|egrep -i wireless 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) # uname -r 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
you are running an older kernel
I found these instructions for building a driver for the BCM4313 chip set: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom?action=show
I went to this site: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php and downloaded this file: hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_141.tar.gz
No problem with this: yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc
this installed the latest kernel-*
if you install the latest kernel (matching your installed kernel-headers and kernel-devel), then reboot, all (or some?) problems should go away.