> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:35 AM, <ottop at lavabit.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm a complete newbie in Linux and am trying to get my Broadcom BCM4313 >> working in my Lenovo S10-3t netbook (CentOS 6.3 installed from LiveCD). >> I followed the steps in the wiki, which lead me to ELRepo: wl-kmod. I >> followed the instructions there until Step 2: >> >> $ mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SPECS,SOURCES,SRPMS} >> $ echo -e "%_topdir $(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild\n%dist .el$(lsb_release -s >> -r|cut -d"." -f1).local" >> ~/.rpmmacros >> >> Then I got stuck with this message: >> >> bash: lsb_release: command not found > > Are you referring to this ELRepo article? > > http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod > > It says, "yum install redhat-lsb". Also, if you follow the > instructions in there, you will NOT be building the module as root. > Mark has noted these points in his reply. So, please go through the > wiki carefully and try not to skip any steps. My apologies. I was careless and missed that step completely. The installation went fine (and this time I didn't use root unless specified), but I stumbled into more problems with the rpm build. More info on the forum: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=38251&forum=57 > Will you also show us the output returned by : > > lspci -nn | grep -i net > > I'd like to see the vendor:device pairing. Sure! For my Lenovo S10-3t: 05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1692] (rev 01) 07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)