CentOS7- WiFi Not Recognized – HWaddress – Or Any Idea
Hello, I recently installed CentOS7+Gnome on my macbook air , at first start the wireless adaptor , which is the (infamous?) BCMA4360 , seemed to work because I was asked to choose the network and provided password, but thereafter wifi did not appear, so I can connect to the Internet only by cable. Googling a few days and checking on my computer I found the following:- the infamous wifi adapter BCM4360 appears on lshw list- the driver for wifi adapter appears on lsmod list as BCMA, and I also find the driver, bcm-pci-bridge in sys/bus/drivers- i didn’t find any file in /etc/sysconfig/network_scripts where the device is bcma wifi adapter, or any wifi. My idea to workaround this is: to create a file in /etc/sysconfig/network_scripts/, in wich i inteded to pass the HWadress of the device(BCMA4360), but I wasn’t able to find a way to get this address.If somebody can help me to find a way to get this HWaddr would be very appreciated.Or any ideas to get wifi on my fancy macbook air with CentOS and no macos at all, because at installation somehow i accomplished the performance to format the entire disk.I also mention that I am not an IT guy, but I want to learn a lot about the linux CentOS, but first things first : I need wifi. Regards, Cristian
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Le 03/12/2018 à 07:22, Cristian Danciu via CentOS a écrit :
Hi Cristian,
Some time ago I installed CentOS 7 on a client’s MacBook Pro, with a Broadcom wireless card.
Here’s my notes (in french) :
https://blog.microlinux.fr/CentOS-7-macbook-pro/
First make sure to upgrade the kernel to ELRepo’s kernel-lts
Once you have that, install the driver as described in the article.
Cheers,
Niki
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On my system “lshw -C network” reports my unconfigured wifi interface. The mac address is reported as a
“serial number”.