Broadcom Wireless Card: Installation Script For Linux-STA Driver
Hi,
I just installed CentOS 6.6 on my HP Pavilion DM1 laptop. The wireless card is only poorly supported in the default setup, so I decided to write an installation script for the Linux-STA driver, which works perfectly.
https://github.com/kikinovak/CentOS/blob/master/6.x/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta.sh
Grab the files:
# git clone https://github.com/kikinovak/CentOS
Run the script:
# cd CentOS/6.x/broadcom-sta
# broadcom-sta.sh
Reboot and you’re ready to go.
Cheers,
Niki
5 thoughts on - Broadcom Wireless Card: Installation Script For Linux-STA Driver
Did you try the drivers provided by elrepo?
http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
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Jonathan Billings
Le 14/12/2014 15:02, Jonathan Billings a écrit :
No. I read the CentOS wiki page here, which states that ELRepo doesn’t provide these drivers due to licence restrictions, and that the user has to build them manually.
http://wiki.CentOS.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom?action=show
:o)
Niki
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Its true that CentOS can’t package it for distribution, however, the elrepo package probably works fine, and you can subscribe to the elrepo repository and get software updates. It also attempts to make sure your wifi will continue working after you reboot into a new kernel.
Yes. However once built, because it is a kABI-tracking kmod package, there is no need to build it again for each kernel update.
Akemi
Do you know if this is a complete list of devices with which your script should work?
Product Name Ven:Dev Dell Product Name[s]
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