On Mon, December 4, 2017 1:40 am, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 12/03/2017 11:10 PM, Phil Perry wrote: >> 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. Every time I encounter big enough trouble about some chipset to have to learn a bit about its internals, I usually learn about its engineering flaw. BCM43xx has the following one: the chip internally is 32 bit, though it sits on 64 bit bus. (Take that with a grain of salt, it's been long time since I looked into that crap). Once I discover the flaw, I add particular hardware in my black list and do my best to not buy anything containing it. Broadcom as a whole is not in my black list, they have great hardware, but their BCM43XX is, even if they corrected their design flaws since. I would replace that if possible (Intel would be great candidate), or use USB adapters others suggest. Just my $0.02 Valeri > > That's what I have to do, and it can sometimes be a PITA because a > kernel update can break it and you have to build it again. > > With major updates (like 7.3 to 7.4) you sometimes have to download a > new nosrc rpm. > >> >> 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. > > At some point I will be replacing mine, but with a low-profile PCI-E > card. I've had bad luck with USB wifi adapters, sometimes for example > they lose connection when a microwave is turned on and when I was > visiting my parents, had one that lost connection whenever the AC unit > kicked on. > > My best wifi experience in Linux has been with my T series thinkpad, it > uses some kind of Intel wireless chipset that is in the kernel. > > I'm going to be looking for a low profile Intel PCI-E card, but for now > my broadcom PCI-E actually works quite well - with the exception of > needing to rebuild every now and then (last time was 7.3 to 7.4 update) > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++