[CentOS] Broadcom wireless card: installation script for Linux-STA driver

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Sun Dec 14 15:05:55 UTC 2014


On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 03:36:00PM +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Le 14/12/2014 15:02, Jonathan Billings a écrit :
> >Did you try the drivers provided by elrepo?
> >
> >http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
> 
> No. I read the CentOS wiki page here, which states that ELRepo
> doesn't provide these drivers due to licence restrictions, and that
> the user has to build them manually.

Its true that CentOS can't package it for distribution, however, the
elrepo package probably works fine, and you can subscribe to the
elrepo repository and get software updates.  It also attempts to make
sure your wifi will continue working after you reboot into a new
kernel. 

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>



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