On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 11:09 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > 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 Broadcom released open source drivers in Fall of 2010 for both 32 & 64 bit systems. I do not know if it supports the 1390 chip. It does support 4300 series chips and b43-fwcutter, for extracting and installing firmware, and b43 driver are shipped with RHEL 6. One should probably assume the same support in CentOS 6. HTH, B.J. RHEL 6.0, Linux 2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64