LENOVO E431 WiFi Unrecognized

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ozburn
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Joined: 2014/07/08 14:31:28

LENOVO E431 WiFi Unrecognized

Post by ozburn » 2014/07/08 14:47:32

Using 7 1406 gnome live , Wifi is not available, note recognized..
Hardware - Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n

sreejithp
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Location: Bangalore, India

Re: LENOVO E431 WiFi Unrecognized

Post by sreejithp » 2014/07/09 04:46:53

Broadcom BCM43142 proprietary drivers is not included as part of any RHEL/Centos/Fedora based distributions.
The opensource driver is not working with the BCM43142
I have already raised a bug request in elrepo for provide a rpm of kmod-wl driver available for Centos 7 in there elrepo

http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=484

if you need it urgently, you can compile the drivers available in from https://github.com/akrasic/broadcom-wl.
it contains some patches which will provide support for 3.10 kernel

Note: if you get a kernel update, then you will have to recompile the drivers again and load it

limitx3m
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Re: LENOVO E431 WiFi Unrecognized

Post by limitx3m » 2014/09/09 03:24:49

This sucks. Any updates yet?

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