Re: Wireless NIC on Fedora 2

Richard Whitney wrote:

>>First you should find out what chipset that card contains. Some vendors
>>put different chipsets in the same model numbered cards, so you need to
>>install it to find out. Assuming it's PCI or cardbus (not USB), do an
>>"lspci -nv" command and look for a Class 0280 device - that's a network
>>controller. The xxxx:xxxx following "Class 0280:" indicates what
>>manufacturer:chipset the device contains. You can do a "lspci -v"
>>command for a more human readable form, but the device may or may not be
>>defined (yet). Let us know what it is and we can point you in the right
>>direction.
>>
>>--
>
>
> /sbin/lspci -nv shows Class 0280 14e5:4320 rev(3)
>
> it's a broadcom chipset apparently
>
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That's not good news. There is no Linux support for Broadcom (and vice
versa). You should be able to get it to work though using ndiswrapper
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/) along with the windoze
drivers. Not a pretty solution, but I think that's the only chance
you've got to get broadcom chips working with Linux.

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