trying to add a wireless driver -live spin

[JD]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Joshua Andrews <woodguy552010 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I am running a usb spin on a dell inspiron but the wireless, broadcom,
> doesn't
> work.
> I'd like to be able to insmod the proper module but without network, no yum
> to
> install kmod-wl.
> I could install kernel-devel and build the module if I even knew which
> kernel
> package was used for the spin.
>
> Is there a list of the packages used for the various spins?
>
> Maybe I'm going about this all wrong. Anyway, thanks for any info.
> J-




When yiou boot the USB spin, what does
uname -r


tell  you?


Or, more precisely,


rpm -q kernel


will tell you which version of the kernel it is running.
Once you know the kernel version, use another networked

machine to download the kernel-devel for that same version
your usb spin boots into.

At any rate, you might have to go the rpmfusion to find the
kernel-devel for your kernel.
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