HOW TO: Install: - Broadcom bcm4352 driver in RHEL/CENTOS 6 or 7

1.      Open the terminal and become su (root):

Identify the hardware:

# lspci |grep -i wireless

# yum update

Then reboot the machine.

2.      Install the Kernel Development Packages

Open the terminal and become su (root):

# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

# yum install redhat-lsb

# yum install kernel-devel

3.      Create a local user with a name:-

 “abj” (for RHEL/CENTOS 6)

 “Tindall” (for RHEL/CENTOS 7)

Command to create user - # useradd <username>

I’m doing here in CENTOS7 machine, you can do as per OS.

# useradd tindall

# su – tindall

# mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SPECS,SOURCES,SRPMS}

# echo -e "%_topdir $(echo $HOME/rpmbuild)\n%dist.el$(lsb_release -s -r|cut -d"." -f1).local" >> ~/.rpmmacros

Download the Closed source RPM (wl-kmod-6_30_223_*.elrepo.nosrc.rpm ) for the 802.11ac card from below link.  

For RHEL/CentOS6 - http://ftp.colocall.net/pub/elrepo/elrepo/el6/SRPMS/wl-kmod-6_30_223_141-2.el6.elrepo.nosrc.rpm or  https://1drv.ms/u/s!AriQmQb-LJvf0iSy4UAlHCkHdUFN

For RHEL/CentOS7 - http://ftp.colocall.net/pub/elrepo/elrepo/el7/SRPMS/wl-kmod-6_30_223_271-1.el7.elrepo.nosrc.rpm or  https://1drv.ms/u/s!AriQmQb-LJvf0iWWA1AuWqDqvLCs

# cd ~/rpmbuild

# wget http://ftp.colocall.net/pub/elrepo/elrepo/el7/SRPMS/wl-kmod-6_30_223_271-1.el7.elrepo.nosrc.rpm

4.      Download the Broadcom Driver Source for RHEL / CentOS  6/7

# cd SOURCES

# wget https://docs.broadcom.com/docs-and-downloads/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_271.tar.gz

# cd ../

# pwd

/home/tindall/rpmbuild/

# rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'packager <$USER>' wl-kmod*.nosrc.rpm

5.      Become root again

# su – root

6.      Install the customized RPM for the 802.11ac card, replace /dell/ with the users home directory name

# rpm -Uvh /home/dell/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kmod-wl*.rpm

Then reboot and check

Check if wireless is still not activated then run below commands.

• # modprobe -r b43 b43legacy ssb wl lib80211
• # modprobe -r bcma
• # modprobe lib80211_crypt_tkip
• # modprobe wl