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CentOS 6.5 Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 driver

I used these instructions to build a rpm for my wireless driver on my HP ProBook 650:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod

But, after it installs and I do the final step "modprobe wl" I cannot see the card with iwconfig or in NetworkManager.

What could be the issue here?
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Aaron Tomosky
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Did you reboot in step 8?
The difficulty is posting the step in the instructions does not reflect what you have which is often where a typo could be the culprit.

You might want to consider using DKMS so that whenever you update that alters the kernel version, this module will automatically is rebuilt/integrated on boot of the new kernel.
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/w/wiki/2463.linux-projects.aspx

look at dmesg to see whether it reports an issue when loading/processing the boot up.
Why you build yourself?
Install this one: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-compat-wireless if you really have broadcom card

HP says there aremultiple networking kits for that laptop:
Atheros 802.11b/g/n (1x1)
Combinación de Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/n (2x2) y Bluetooth 4.0
Combinación de Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 802.11a/b/g/n y Bluetooth 4.0
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