Where to find a binary for wl-kmod for current fedora 14 (64-bit)?

Colin Paul Adams colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Fri Apr 15 11:20:04 UTC 2011


>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <colin at colina.demon.co.uk> writes:

    Colin> My macbook airport isn't working again after recent kernel
    Colin> updates.  I found the rpm for
    Colin> broadcom-wl.5.100.82.38-1.fc14.noarch.rpm, but when I try to
    Colin> install it, it says it requires the wl-kmod as a dependncy.

    Colin> Of course, i cannot do a yum install, as i have no network
    Colin> connection on the laptop! So I have to download the binary,
    Colin> but I can't find it anywhere (only source).

It turns out that the dependency name is wrong!.

Actually, what i needed was kmod-wl 5.100.82.38 and kmod-wl
2.6.35.12.88. This is  REALLY weird (and plain unworkable, almost).

Anyway, my network is working again.
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