appalachLAN XII is today and i have spent the last 3+ hours reformatting my laptop. twice. i couldn’t make up my mind between 8 and 9… i settled with the one i know best. it seems like every time i reformat, with every kernel update, i have to scour the internet for a new BCM4328 driver. the one that worked this time is R140746. wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R140746.EXE i hope this helps someone. after you download that, do the following: echo "blacklist bcm43xx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
yum install ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper make sure you have a wireless interface set up under your network settings and make sure your /etc/modprobe.conf has an “alias wlan0 ndiswrapper” line somewhere in it. you’ll probably have to reboot. you shouldn’t have to with modprobe but i had to.