On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:49:11 +0200, Milos Blazevic wrote: [...] > Mike, > > from what I can see in one of your earlier e-mails, you appear to be > dealing with BCM4311, which is in my experience one of least problematic > - worked out of the box on CentOS 6, however, ymmv. Anyway, it would be > useful if we could see the output of: > > lspci -nn > > just to confirm the exact Broadcom chip. > > Now, the manual at CentOS wiki used to be sufficent to make the WiFi > work (as eth1 or wlan0, regardless - although I always configured it as > eth1), sadly, this is not entirely true anymore. To be more precise, the > latest driver from Broadcom site doesn't work at all on CentOS 5 (tested > it not a month ago with BCM4311). So, in order to avoid paying to > DriverGuide.com, I can either send you a older version of a driver, or > you can download one from here: > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/broadcom-sta/5.10.91.9.3-3 > > (I haven't tested the latter), and go through the installation manual > step by step. I haven't read Gytis' manual, but it should work in pretty > much the same was as the one on CentOS Broadcom Wiki - as he contributed > to the Wiki :-) > > Hopefully, I'll perform some more testing soon and remedy obsoleted > parts of the Wiki page as soon as the time permits. > > > P.S: > And yes, you should leave NetworkManger manage your network connections > for start, and stop meddling with wpa_supplicant and manual wireless > configuration - it'll save you time and nervs. So, just run: > > service network stop > service NetworkManager start > chkconfig network off > chkconfig NetworkManager on Downloading from the location that you suggest (which is an Ubunto location), I got: broadcom-sta_5.10.91.9.3.orig.tar.gz and running it: # pwd /root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386 # make KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd` make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.i686' LD /root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386/built-in.o CC [M] /root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o /root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c: In function ‘wl_free’: /root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:705: error: implicit declaration of function ‘schedule’ make[2]: *** [/root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/ wl_linux.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/root/broadcom/driver/broadcom-sta/i386] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.i686' make: *** [all] Error 2 So what is this ‘schedule’ thing? Thanks, Mike.