[ale] CentOS and Broadcom Wireless

[Jim Kinney]

I would LOVE to toss broadcom to the street, but the Mac book pro has it
and centos7 and Fedora 21 are much happy making for me than osx.

The older mbp has an intermediate nvidia (ge 9400m) card not supported by
343 in rpmfusion or elrepo. It is not supported either in the 304 series.
Nvidia has a 340.xx driver that loads but gnome doesn't like it and
displays nothing over the default X background. So nouveau for the older
mbp with fedora 21.
On Jan 4, 2015 9:33 PM, "Raylynn Knight" <seca900rider at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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
> 02 - 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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