Can't get Broadcom wirelss to work

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limitx3m
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Can't get Broadcom wirelss to work

Post by limitx3m » 2014/09/08 19:33:55

I'm relatively new to CentOS I've installed this driver on Ubuntu and have it working fine; however, I'm struggling to get this CentOS install up with wireless.
I've been following this tutorial
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

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lspci -vnn -d 14e4:
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Melco Inc Buffalo WLI2-PCI-G54S High Speed Mode Wireless Desktop Adapter [1154:0330]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
	Memory at fcefc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]

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   1 wget http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-018.tar.bz2 http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-018.tar.bz2.asc
   2 gpg --verify b43-fwcutter-018.tar.bz2.asc
   3 tar xjf b43-fwcutter-018.tar.bz2
   4 cd b43-fwcutter-018
   5 make
   6 sudo make install
   7 cd ..

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 1 export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
   2 wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
   3 tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
   4 sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o

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  1 export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
   2 wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
   3 sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
After all that, I get this:

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sudo: b43-fwcutter: command not found
Thank you for your assistance! :)

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