On 10/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Patrick C</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:patrick.pxc.c@gmail.com">patrick.pxc.c@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'd be glad to help with that. I've a few friends who have laptops with goofy wifi (broadcom, usually), and so I have some experience with ndiswrapper. If I'm feeling up to it, I could help you recompile your kernel to support it, assuming your card is just old enough.
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[...]</a><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank"></a><br></blockquote></div><br>Thank you.<br><br>My wifi card is an 'external' one that plugs in (temporarily) to 
<br>a PCMCIA slot in the laptop PC.<br>I think the chip is a broadcom (BCM 4318).<br>(It has been discussed already in some<br>&nbsp;other threads in this mailing list).<br>My sw is currently Unbunto 6.06 but I saw recently<br>
that apparently 6.10 is out now.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; I also might &quot;conisder&quot; using a dual boot<br>(Windows, Gnu/Linux) setup.<br>My employer issued me a laptop PC <br>(which by the way has internal wifi that works fine)<br>and it has that [dual boot (WindowsXP, Gnu/Linux)].
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; (On my own laptop, even if I were running WindowsXP,<br>I would use Firefox rather than IE;&nbsp; ..actually, that is<br>also done [usually] on my &quot;work&quot; laptop PC.)<br>-- <br>Mike Schwartz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Glendale&nbsp;&nbsp;AZ 
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