On Monday 11 December 2017 18:50:06 Akemi Yagi wrote:> ?As far as I know, the contents on the CentOS wiki are for CentOS 7.3 (or > earlier) and a patch is needed to use the driver under 7.4. > > You may want to go to the ELRepo article that is referenced on that page ( > http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod > ? )?. The ELRepo instructions are up to date and should cover EL7.4. > > AkemiI have followed your suggestion and all seemed fine. After rebooting I tried to do the modprobe but got the following: [root at gary ~]# modprobe wl modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': Required key not available [root at gary ~]# This relates to the secure boot that is mentioned on the page. I therefore went through the process of disabling secure boot. This consisted of running: [root at gary ~]# mokutil --disable-validation password length: 8~16 input password: input password again: [root at gary ~]# After doing this I rebooted. As part of the reboot I was supposed to be asked for the password that I had just created but I wasn't. Then, after the reboot I tried the modprobe command but received the same error message. Anyone got ideas what I need to do next?
After getting nowhere with the mokutil command I decided to use the other option and turn off secure boot in the BIOS settings. I had been loathed to do this because every time I do anything in the BIOS it stuffs the boot order and reverts to booting straight into Win8. Guess what, as soon as I turned off secure boot it did exactly that. Turnng secure boot back on made no difference. Thankfully, the mailing list archives for this list still contain the instructions on how to fix it. For those interested, it involved pressing F9 at boot time to select the boot menu and selecting the Centos option. This then went through GRUB as normal and booted. I then used 'eftbootmgr -o' to define the correct boot sequence. The upshot is that I now have a laptop that boots correctly, and that successfully uses the built in Broadcom WiFi adaptor. Thanks everyone for your help
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Gary Stainburn <gary at ringways.co.uk> wrote:> After getting nowhere with the mokutil command I decided to use the other > option and turn off secure boot in the BIOS settings. > > I had been loathed to do this because every time I do anything in the BIOS > it > stuffs the boot order and reverts to booting straight into Win8. Guess > what, > as soon as I turned off secure boot it did exactly that. Turnng secure boot > back on made no difference. > > Thankfully, the mailing list archives for this list still contain the > instructions on how to fix it. > > For those interested, it involved pressing F9 at boot time to select the > boot > menu and selecting the Centos option. This then went through GRUB as normal > and booted. I then used 'eftbootmgr -o' to define the correct boot > sequence. > > The upshot is that I now have a laptop that boots correctly, and that > successfully uses the built in Broadcom WiFi adaptor. > > Thanks everyone for your help >?Glad to hear things are now working for you. Just wanted to add a note that you can use ELRepo's drivers with SecureBoot enabled if you so wish. ? ?Here's how: ? http://elrepo.org/tiki/SecureBootKey ?Akemi?