[elrepo] Installing laptop wireless drivers

[ottop at lavabit.com]

Hi all,

I currently have 2 machines to use for studying CentOS:
1. Lenovo S10-3t with BCM4313 (14e4:4727)
2. Toshiba Satellite Pro L510 with RTL8191SE (10ec:8172)

They both seem to be covered by kmod-compat-wireless in
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-compat-wireless, but I can't get any of them
to work (please bear with me as I'm a complete newbie in linux, a lot of
these driver installation concepts are foreign to me).

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1. BCM4143
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I downloaded the firmware from
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=commit;h=e4379d14549cd9b29988cf3c5b74b29d2051dd09

After untar, I issued the command:
# cp -p linux-firmware-*/brcm/ /lib/firmware/
cp: omitting directory `linux-firmware-e4379d1/bcrm/'

So I issued:
# cp -r linux-firmware-*/brcm/ /lib/firmware/

It copied fine, then I issued:
# restorecon -rv /lib/firmware
# depmod -a ; modprobe brcmsmac
FATAL: Module brcmsmac not found.

Does this mean I didn't install kmod-compat-wireless correctly?

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2. RTL8191SE
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I downloaded the firmware from
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=commit;h=e0836e6ec3568f54b7fac24b9e17bbe8c46eb508

After untar, I issued the command:
# cp -r linux-firmware-*/rtlwifi/ /lib/firmware/
# restorecon -rv /lib/firmware
# depmod -a ; modprobe rtl8192se
FATAL: Module rtl8192se not found.

This is when I got really confused and started copying RTL8192E folder and
trying different module names to load, all to no avail.
Is the module name we're supposed to load based on the .ko? Does that mean
I didn't install kmod-compat-wireless correctly as well (the -r switch in
copying was not the correct way to do it)?

Related forum thread:
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=38251&forum=57

Thanks in advance for your patience in helping a bumbling newbie!