[CentOS] Broadcom BCM4360

[Phil Perry]

On 04/12/17 00:38, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 12/3/2017 4:22 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>> I have not been able to get it to work Centos 7.4 machine.  Some of the
>>   centos user posts had indicated the nux repsitory had a Centos 7 kmod-
>> wl, but it is not present when I tried to search or or install it at
>> this time.
> 
> this looks potentionally helpful
> 
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
> 
> it appears those are closed source drivers with funky licenses, so they 
> can't just be redistributed without assumption of liability.
> 
> 

Correct, elrepo isn't able to freely redistribute the drivers due 
Broadcom's licensing, but does provide instructions and a SRPM (minus 
tarball) for you to build yourself.

Alternatively, for $8 you can purchase an adaptor that is natively 
supported and will work out of the box:

https://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-150Mbps-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJOY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512370979&sr=8-1&keywords=edimax+n150

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315091&cm_re=edimax_n150-_-33-315-091-_-Product

The above adaptor is based on the Realtek RTL8188CUS chipset and uses 
the rtl8192cu kernel driver.