problems getting broadcom 80211 sta driver to install
 

I installed linux yesterday and have almost no experience with linux or terminal use. I am trying to get my wireless network card to work with linux the id for the card is bcm43227. after searching the web I came across the 80211 sta driver, on the broadcom site I opened the readme file. I believe I have installed yum the devel-kernel correctly. The readme file mentions that I should be able to install a precompiled version called kmod-wl i logged into root and tried to install kmod-wl this did not work. I then tried to build the module, this did not work either i typed ls /lib/modules/'uname -r'/build into the terminal and received the "no such file or directory". the document says to install kernel-devel at this point which I believe i did using yum install kernel-devel i then tried to install the precompiled and building the module again neither worked. I am wondering if I am missing a step or am doing something wrong. Any pointers, tips, or info about how I should do this or a better way would be greatly appreciated. If you need any more information please contact me. Thanks

Most wireless cards do not require any additional drivers.

Could you post the output of the following commands?

Which distribution are you using? I see you said "yum" so, maybe Fedora, if so this guide at Fedora Forums is great.

If you are using CentOS this page at ElRepo should help.

Broadcom is often problematical.

See this post devoted to Broadcom.

**[root@dk daniel]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

em1 no wireless extensions.

[root@dk daniel]# ifup wlan0
/usr/sbin/ifup: configuration for wlan0 not found.
Usage: ifup <device name>**


yes I'm using fedora, I'll check out the links too,