[CentOS] CentOS 5 and Broadcom wireless

[Steven Haigh]

Quoting Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>:
> I've got CentOS 5 installed on my hp pavilion ze 5300 laptop and the
> network configuration UI says my wireless NIC has been correctly
> identified and assigned what appears to be the right Broadcom device
> driver on eth1.  However, the inteface doesn't come up.
>
> Google doesn't find anything recent about using Linux with Broadcom
> except for someone's passing remark that Ubuntu 7 beta seems to work
> with it successfully.  Everything else points to using ndiswrappers
> and the Windows drivers.

Is it a bcm43xx card? check your dmesg output and see if it needs a  
firmware file. If so, that's where you start. If not, ndiswrapper  
works :)

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Steven Haigh

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