On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:25 PM, David McGuffey<davidmcguffey at verizon.net> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:00 -0400, centos-request at centos.org wrote: >> Message: 64 >> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:14:17 -0700 >> From: Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >> Message-ID: >> <6bb609560906110814t3c41faaci58d5b92ed7f42985 at mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:54 AM, David >> McGuffey<davidmcguffey at verizon.net> wrote: >> > Last problem is with the Broadcom 4312 wireless device. ?Again, did >> some >> > research and found two ways. ?One was the Broadcom provided Linux >> > driver, and the other was the guidance on how to use fw-cutter from >> > linuxwireless.com. >> >> There are some possibly-related notes on this page in the wiki: >> >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/HP/Pavilion-ze5300_Series >> >> Short summary: neither bcm43xx nor ndiswrapper are a perfect solution, >> and you may need to blacklist the bcm43xx driver to use ndiswrapper. >> >> That wiki entry was originally written for CentOS 5.0. I'm currently >> running 5.3 with the supplied bcm43xx driver and it has some problems >> with duplicate/dropped packets so the performance is suboptimal, but >> it does work. >> > Thanks... > > According to the guidance a linuxwireless.com the b43 driver (not > bcm43xx or b43legacy) should work with the 4312 device. > > If I can't get bcm43xx and bcm43xx-microcode5.fw to work, then I may try > to install the b43 driver and blacklist bcm43xx. > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I recently got a Dell laptop that also has the dell 1395/broadcom 4312 card. I was unable/too lazy to get the ndiswrapper thing working. Much googling eventually turned up this blog post: http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2008/10/03/linux-driver-available-for-dell-wireless-cards.aspx I grabbed the tarball from: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php Then I followed the directions, which amount pretty much to compiling the kernel module and installing it. I did this on Fedora 10, though I think it should work with CentOS as well. HTH -- Eric