[CentOS] CentOS 5 and Broadcom wireless
Steven Haigh
netwiz at crc.id.auThu May 10 00:03:59 UTC 2007
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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 :) -- Steven Haigh Email: netwiz at crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474
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