[CentOS] CentOS 5 and Broadcom wireless

On Wed, May 9, 2007 7:59 pm, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> 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.
>
> Am I stuck going that route?  Has anyone successfully used wireless
> with the stock drivers?
> Has anyone who had experience with ndiswrappers in earlier versions of
> CentOS (which I haven't) gone through the effort to get it working on
> CentOS5?
>
> Clues, troubleshooting suggestions, etc. appreciated.

Wireless (Broadcom) appeared to work fine on my Compaq Presario V2000, but
the connection kept dropping every hour or so, so I gave up and
reinstalled Fedora.