Mark Weaver wrote: > On 7/4/2011 10:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: >>> Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking >>> around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't >>> find one. >>> >>> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card >>> in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver >>> support for the WIFI. >> I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390. >> There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be >> applicable to CentOS 6. > > I took a look at the Fedora 15 live CD and it didn't have any idea what > to do with the WIFI chipset. As I recall it didn't even see it. > Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom Ljubomir