On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov> wrote: > Robert Nichols wrote: >> Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running >> on CentOS 5? >> I was hoping that CentOS 5.3 might >> include a backported b43 driver, but I grabbed a preliminary >> version of the new kernel (2.6.18-132), and it still has the >> old bcm43xx.ko driver. > > Not looking good. On the Linville test kernels page the b43 patch is > listed as "discarded". > > http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/ > > Might try a request at ATrpms or RPMforge for a kernel module. ... Or ask Alan Bartlett in the CentOS forums. He has built quite a few drivers (kernel-independent kmod packages) for CentOS users. You can see the list here: http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/CentOS-5/ Akemi / toracat