[CentOS-docs] Success with Broadcom installation

Sat Dec 10 05:08:56 UTC 2016
Erik <erik at schminke.us>

Wanted to report success, following this procedure:

https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom

At the bottom, I see something of a compatibility matrix, but a line
representing my specific setup does not exists.  So I offer the following
data to show that it works in my environment.

[erik at localhost ~]$ uname -r
3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.x86_64
[erik at localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
[erik at localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
[erik at localhost ~]$ lspci -nvv
...
0c:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
    Subsystem: 1028:000c
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
    Region 0: Memory at f1ffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: wl

[erik at localhost ~]$ ls -ld
Downloads/hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_271.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 erik erik 2928541 Dec  9 21:47
Downloads/hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_271.tar.gz
[erik at localhost ~]$

I also wanted to point out, the command provided to extract the TGZ file
downloaded from the Broadcom site is incorrect.  Should be:

tar xvzf /path/to/the/tarball/hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_271.tar.gz


The "f" flag should be the last flag in the list.  Got an error when
entered as provided.

Thanks!

Erik Schminke
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