[elrepo] [elrepo-devel] Broken kmod-compat-wireless package

[Phil Perry]

On 13/08/12 19:28, ni at centergate.net wrote:
>
>> There have been problems with this driver too. Some Later versions just
>> stopped working on some chipsets.
>>
>> There is an easier method for this driver though - some repositories do
>> offer a binary version, for example search here:
>>
>> http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/nux-dextop-i386/kmod-wl-5_100_82_112-1.el6.el6.nux.i686.rpm.html
>>
>>
>> That will save you having to compile the driver yourself so it's also
>> worth a try.
>
> I had it compiled already from testing it previously, I tried it first
> (I'm getting myself confused, should I have compat-wireless-kmod
> installed while testing this? It currently is installed).
>

No, these are two completely different drivers for the same hardware.

You will need to uninstall kmod-compat-wireless first before attempting 
to install kmod-wl.

It's probably not a good idea to even build the wl driver on a system 
with kmod-compat-wireless installed.