[CentOS] support for Broadcom BCM4313

Fri May 25 20:45:27 UTC 2012
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Philippe Naudin
<philippe.naudin at supagro.inra.fr> wrote:
> Le ven. 25 mai 2012 09:42:14 CEST, Phil Schaffner a écrit:

>> Check http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-compat-wireless to see if it supports
>> your hardware with the standard kernel.
>
> Phil, Earl,
>
> Thanks for pointing me to elrepo : yes, the kmod-compat-wireless page
> lists brcmsmac.ko.
>
> If someone else find this mail while wanting to use its bcm4313
> adapter :
> rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
> download the firmware from http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/
> tar xzf linux-firmware-*.tar.gz
> mv linux-firmware-*/brcm/ /lib/firmware/
> restorecon -rv /lib/firmware
> depmod -a : modprobe brcmsmac
> ... and it works.

Philippe,

Thank you for the note. The kmod-compat-wireless wiki page has been
updated using your lines as an example for installation.

Akemi