Bart Schaefer wrote: > I'm using CentOS 5 (w/all latest updates as of 2008-01-06) on an HP > laptop -- in fact, the exact laptop described here: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/HP/Pavilion-ze5300_Series > > Ever since I switched from SHARED to OPEN authentication (and hence > from using ndiswrapper to the bcm43xx module, as explained on that > wiki page), I've been having packet loss and/or collision on the > wireless device, to the point that recently I've needed to plug in to > a wired network in order to get yum updates. I'd like to try > installing a newer version of the driver, but I'm having a fail on > searching for the sources; I don't want to build an entire new kernel. > > Does anyone have a pointer to those driver sources or better yet to a > DKMS or similar package for them? That driver seems to be in the latest mainline kernel (/drivers/net/wireless/b43) so you could grab the source from there and try compiling it out-of-tree against the centos kernel (or building your own dkms or kmod package). Alternatively, I wonder if a more recent (working) version has been backported into 5.3. You may like to give the latest 5.3 beta kernel a quick try to see if it's working for you.