[ale] CentOS and Broadcom Wireless

[Raylynn Knight]

> On Jan 4, 2015, at 9:10 PM, Sergio Chaves <sergio.chaves at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For those having issues on getting drivers to work with the Broadcom Wireless family, the combination of these 02 WIKI directions made it happen for me:
> 01 - http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom>
> 02 - http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod <http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod>
> 
> I followed the first link all the way to section 4a. I then followed sections 1,2,3,5, and 7 of the second link.
> I restarted my laptops and turned the Wireless ON. It worked. 
> Life is good.
> 
Just say no to Broadcom Wireless until they provide proper open source drivers!  They still assume everyone is using Intel architecture, so their closed source drivers are useless for anyone using ARM, MIPS or PPC based hardware.

Ray


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