New thread, broadcom 802-11 related

[Claude Jones]

On Sun April 16 2006 5:30 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
> According to lspci, this box has a Broadcom BCM4318 802-11g radio in it.

I can't help you very specifically, but, I do have an HP Pavillion, a ZX5000; 
lspci says I have the Broadcom 4306;
running PCLINUXOS, I have the wireless working perfectly with NDISwrapper;
a month or so back, I installed MEPIS on that machine, and it booted up with 
the wireless just working - on investigation, I discovered that it had found 
the Broadcom, installed NDISwrapper, and the Windows driver, all on its own!

I would suggest looking at NDISwrapper - you might just get your Broadcom 
going with that - by the way, after much experimentation in PCLINUXOS, I 
concluded that the various drivers available on the net were inferior to the 
ones that were installed in my Windows partition - if you read around, you'll 
see warnings that the installed Windows drivers are not always the most 
desirable, but in my case they were. Sorry I can't give you specific info re: 
NDISwrapper and FC5, but maybe this will help...
-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA