I am trying to enable wireless on my HP dv6809us laptop with CentOS 5.4 and am having a hard time. First thing I found was 802.11 Linux STA driver from broadcom website. It fails at the second step in the instructions where I have to 'make'. I installed the kernel-devel and kernel-headers and still it doesn't work.

The broadcom website says:

ISSUES FIXED AND WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE
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+ Supports Linux kernel 2.6.29, 2.6.30.1, 2.6.31
+ Supports hidden networks
+ Supports rfkill in kernels < 2.6.31

Does that mean kernel 2.6.18(which comes with CentOS 5.4) is not compatible? Could someone suggest me how to resolve this? I was running Ubuntu 9.10 before this and had no problem. My last resort is to change the wireless card to Linksys.

Thanks much.