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 I'd like to try installing a newer version of the driver, but I'm having a fail on searching for the sources; I don't want to build an entire new kernel.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?
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using CentOS 5 (w/all latest updates as of 2008-01-06) on an HP
Err, typo, that should say 2009-01-06. D'oh.
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 I'd like to try installing a newer version of the driver, but I'm having a fail on searching for the sources; I don't want to build an entire new kernel.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The bcm43xx is no longer maintained, and it is my understanding that it will not be replaced in the RHEL 5 kernel.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
Bart Schaefer wrote:
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 I'd like to try installing a newer version of the driver, but I'm having a fail on searching for the sources; I don't want to build an entire new kernel.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?
That driver seems to be in the latest mainline kernel (/drivers/net/wireless/b43) so you could grab the source from there and try compiling it out-of-tree against the centos kernel (or building your own dkms or kmod package).
Alternatively, I wonder if a more recent (working) version has been backported into 5.3. You may like to give the latest 5.3 beta kernel a quick try to see if it's working for you.
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