[elrepo] kmod-compat-wireless - and BCM4313 [14e4:4727]

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On 01.08.2012 22:30, ni at centergate.net wrote:
> Phil,
>
>> I've not had a chance to look at it, but I think the compat-wireless
>> stuff broke with the release of 6.3. It was compatible with the 6.2
>> series kernels but it looks like Red Hat have backported more 
>> wireless
>> bits into their 6.3 kernel which has caused breakage in 
>> compat-wireless
>> compatibility.
>>
>> I've not tried rebuilding the compat-wireless package against 6.3, 
>> but I
>> suspect this will need fixing upstream in the compat-wireless 
>> project to
>> retain RHEL compatibility.
>
>
> Thanks Phil, I really appreciate the quick feedback! I've been 
> banging
> me head off this for almost two full days. I just couldn't figure out
> why it's not working.
>
> Do you have any suggestions on something I could try that you think
> might work? I would imagine the other software based solutions out 
> there
> will most likely run into similar problems, but I'm a novice in this
> arena so I'm not really sure.
>
> I ran into some "make" issues with the proprietary driver, wondering 
> if
> it's worth venturing down that path until a fix for this comes out.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
>
>
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Nick,

See if this helps:
http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/05/Get_Broadcom_BCM43xx_WIFI_working_in_Centos6_ScientificLinux6_RHEL6.html

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