On 06/11/2014 06:21 AM, HM Johnson wrote: > Hello CentOS admins. > > I am an AIX admin bent on learning CentOS. Yesterday I downloaded > CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso, burned a DVD and loaded it onto a Lenovo > IdeaPad N585 laptop. All went well, except for getting the integrated > wireless to work. Here is some info and what I tried so far. > > # lspci|egrep -i wireless > 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless > Network Adapter (rev 01) > # uname -r > 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 you are running an older kernel > I found these instructions for building a driver for the BCM4313 chip set: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom?action=show > > I went to this site: > http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php > and downloaded this file: > hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_141.tar.gz > > No problem with this: > yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc this installed the latest kernel-* if you install the latest kernel (matching your installed kernel-headers and kernel-devel), then reboot, all (or some?) problems should go away.