Quoting Andrew Allen <andy.allen at virgin.net>: > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:52 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote: > > Quoting Andrew Allen <andy.allen at virgin.net>: > > > > > On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 19:41 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote: > > > > > > > I have a Dell laptop that I believe has the same card. The CentOS 5 > > > > kernel did not appear to support it, but the RHEL 5.1 (and subsequently > > > > upon its release) the CentOS 5.1 kernel does support it. You will need > to > > > > drop the firmware into /lib/firmware .. I believe this is a bcm43xx > card. > > > > > > > > Barry > > > > > > Thanks Barry, > > > In view of what you say about CentOS 5.1 supporting this card, I think > > > I'm going to wait until it's released - hope that won't be too long. Any > > > other possible solutions (eg like using ndiswrapper) look far too > > > complicated for a linux newbie like me! I hope that I'll be able to > > > update the kernel without having to do a complete re-install. In the > > > meantime I'm just going to have to use MS Windows XP (I have dual-boot > > > on this laptop) for any wireless networking. > > > > I was using ndiswrapper for this card until RHEL 5.1's kernel picked it up. > I > > noticed that it now found an 'eth1' interface that didn't exist before. > > ndiswrapper does work, but has somewhat occasional crashes most likely due > to > > RHEL's 4k stack size that is not really compatible with ndiswrapper. I > agree, > > you should wait until the CentOS 5.1 kernel comes out because assuming you > and > > I have the same card, all you need is the firmware .. and it will work > without > > further issue. > > > > Barry > > > > > I've now upgraded the kernel to CentOS 2.6.18-8.1.15.e15, so assume my > OS is now effectively CentOS 5.1. However, I'm afraid I'm still at a bit > of a loss as to how it supports my Dell laptop wireless card (bcm43xx > card?), as it's still not listed in the list of supported adapters in > Network Config. Can anybody please suggest where I go from here? > > Thanks, > Andy You are still on the CentOS 5 kernel, not the CentOS 5.1 kernel. The base RHEL 5 kernel is kernel-2.6.18-53.el5 and the most recent is kernel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5. I don't believe CentOS 5.1 is out yet, but I've not checked today. Barry