[CentOS] CentOS 5 and Broadcom wireless

Thu May 10 08:01:20 UTC 2007
Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au>

Quoting Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>:
> On 5/9/07, Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> 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 :)
>
> Thanks for that pointer ... I got bcm43xxx-fwcutter and extracted the
> firmware files from the bcmwl5.sys file on my Windows partition.  Now
> the driver loads and dmesg indicates that it is scanning for networks.
> It even makes an authentication request, which fails.  I've attached
> the bit of dmesg output that shows what it's doing (MAC address of my
> router redacted).
>
> I have used system-config-network to set the SSID, channel, and hex
> password.  I set the network "Mode:" to "Auto".  The dialog does not
> offer a choice of WEP, WPA, etc.  I've looked at the RedHat docs for
> setting up wireless networking and I think I've done everything
> suggested.  What do I try next?

This is as far as I got in trying to get this working. I just couldn't  
get it to connect to my wireless gear. In the end, I ended up going  
with ndiswrapper. Things may have changed in this respect though - as  
this was ~8-10 months ago.

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Steven Haigh

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