Michael D. Berger wrote: > I have a Broadcom 802.11b/g hardware on my dual-boot laptop. > Note first that in the WinXP partition, the wifi makes DHCP > connections to my router with no problem. Since this > was not working in my new CentOS 6 partition, and > remembering that there was a driver problem with the > old Fedora partition it replaced, I followed instructions > founs at: > > http://repecka.net/en/2011/04/19/install-broadcom-bcm4311-802-11bg-wlan- > drivers-on-centos/ > > and > > http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt > > modifying for that fact that I use wlan0 rather than eth1. > The wifi is now dead-in-the-water. The wlan light now > remains red, and neither ifconfig nor iwconfig show any > sign of wlan0 (contra to the situation before I installed > the new driver). It still works in the WinXP partition. > > Suggestions for my next step in fixing this would be most > welcome. maybe here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom?action=show good luck