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

[Alan Bartlett]

On 1 August 2012 23:30, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:
>
> See if this helps:
> http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/05/Get_Broadcom_BCM43xx_WIFI_working_in_Centos6_ScientificLinux6_RHEL6.html

Hi Nick,

I've recently read your CentOS forum thread . . .

Looking at two lines of the information you posted there --

[quote]
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit
Network Connection [8086:1502] (rev 04)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313
802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
[/quote]

-- I see it is more or less the logical reverse for what I have with
my Dell Latitude E5500.

[quote]
[ajb at Duo2 tmp]$ lspci -nn | grep -i net
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1680] (rev 10)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi
Link 5300 [8086:4235]
[/quote]

So checking for the fingerprint 14e4:4727 with the module from all the
kernels I have on this laptop (running RHEL 6u3), I see --

[quote]
[ajb at Duo2 tmp]$ grep 8086 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep 1502
/lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.x86_64/modules.alias:alias
pci:v00008086d00001502sv*sd*bc*sc*i* e1000e
/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64/modules.alias:alias
pci:v00008086d00001502sv*sd*bc*sc*i* e1000e
/lib/modules/3.5.0-2.el6.elrepo.x86_64/modules.alias:alias
pci:v00008086d00001502sv*sd*bc*sc*i* e1000e
[ajb at Duo2 tmp]$ grep -i 14e4 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep 4727
/lib/modules/3.5.0-2.el6.elrepo.x86_64/modules.alias:alias
pci:v000014E4d00004727sv*sd*bc*sc*i* bcma
[/quote]

Ah, ha! So if Nux!'s suggestion does not work for you, you could try
using the latest kernel-ml-3.5.0-2.el6.elrepo that we have available.

Regards,
Alan.