[elrepo] Unable to install driver for Broadcom

[Prabir Kr Sarkar]

Hi,
   As advised by Trevor I upgraded my system to RHEL 8, the Broadcom
wireless adapter became active and connected to my Wireless hotspot but
couldn't connect to the Internet. Is there something I am missing?

Regards
Prabir

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 3:16 PM Prabir Kr Sarkar <prabir.kr.sarkar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks to Jens I am able to install the Broadcom Driver on my Dell laptop.
> Next step as Trevor pointed out is to upgrade the kernel.
>
> Regards
> Prabir
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 8:25 PM Jens Kuehnel <
> elrepo-general-ml at jens.kuehnel.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > # yum --nogpgcheck localinstall
>> wl-kmod-6_30_223_271-3.el6.elrepo.nosrc.rpm > Cannot add
>> package wl-kmod-6_30_223_271-3.el6.elrepo.nosrc.rpm to >
>> transaction. Not a compatible architecture: src> Nothing to do
>> You need to install the build rpm, like this
>>
>> yum --nogpgcheck localinstall
>> /home/<user>/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kmod-wl-<version>.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> The nosrc.rpm is needed to build the rpm that you need to install.
>>
>> CU
>> Jens
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>
>
> --
> *Thanks and Regards*
> *Prabir Sarkar*
>


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*Thanks and Regards*
*Prabir Sarkar*
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