Broadcom WIFI and FC$

Hopefully someone has found the answer I am looking for.

I have recently installed FC4 (2.6.9-1.667) onto my laptop.

My laptop is a Compaq Presario M2000 and comes fitted with a Braodcon
802.11 b/g WIFI card.

I have not been able to configure FC 4 to operate this unit.

Hopefully someone knows how to correct this problem. I am brand new to
linux and am lost in what I should be doing.

Thanks in advance.

David wrote:
> Hopefully someone has found the answer I am looking for.
>
> I have recently installed FC4 (2.6.9-1.667) onto my laptop.
>
> My laptop is a Compaq Presario M2000 and comes fitted with a Braodcon
> 802.11 b/g WIFI card.
>
> I have not been able to configure FC 4 to operate this unit.
>
> Hopefully someone knows how to correct this problem. I am brand new to
> linux and am lost in what I should be doing.
>
> Thanks in advance.

At the moment, the only way to use Broadcom wireless chips with Linux is to use ndiswrapper. Google
for the ndiswrapper site and check there for information regarding our particular chip.

One possible problem is that FC4 may be generated with 4K stacks, which will not work with
ndiswrapper. If that is the case, you will need to build your own kernel.

Larry

Thanks Larry,
Will try ndiswarpper and see what happens. Worse case is that I will
revert back to a single operating system thatnks to Uncle Bill

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:29:39 GMT, Larry Finger
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>David wrote:
>> Hopefully someone has found the answer I am looking for.
>>
>> I have recently installed FC4 (2.6.9-1.667) onto my laptop.
>>
>> My laptop is a Compaq Presario M2000 and comes fitted with a Braodcon
>> 802.11 b/g WIFI card.
>>
>> I have not been able to configure FC 4 to operate this unit.
>>
>> Hopefully someone knows how to correct this problem. I am brand new to
>> linux and am lost in what I should be doing.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
>At the moment, the only way to use Broadcom wireless chips with Linux is to use ndiswrapper. Google
>for the ndiswrapper site and check there for information regarding our particular chip.
>
>One possible problem is that FC4 may be generated with 4K stacks, which will not work with
>ndiswrapper. If that is the case, you will need to build your own kernel.
>
>Larry

In comp.os.linux.networking David <(E-Mail Removed)>:

[ FC 4 Broadcom wlan on Compaq Presario M2000 not working ]

> Will try ndiswarpper and see what happens. Worse case is that I will
> revert back to a single operating system thatnks to Uncle Bill

Whatever nic you are using, usually a good idea is posting the
line of 'lspci' showing the device. but if you need to resort to
ndiswrapper, try this guide:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...dex.php/Fedora

Good luck

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David wrote:
> Thanks Larry,
> Will try ndiswarpper and see what happens. Worse case is that I will
> revert back to a single operating system thatnks to Uncle Bill
>

That shouldn't be necessary. I have used a Linksys WPC54G, which has a BCM4306 chip, on my HP
notebook for more than a year using ndiswrapper under SuSE 9.2 and 10.0. It works better than on the
OS (??) from Redmond. Linux always connects immediately; whereas XP takes about 5 minutes after it
appears to finish booting before the wireless card connects with my WPA-PSK enabled AP.

You might want to keep an eye on the bcm43xx project (http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/), which is writing
a reverse-engineered, native Linux driver for the BCM43xx chips. The driver is working without
encryption, but is not yet ready for prime time, but at the recent progress rate, it should be very
usable within a couple of months.

Larry

David <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>Thanks Larry,
>Will try ndiswarpper and see what happens. Worse case is that I will
>revert back to a single operating system thatnks to Uncle Bill

Other options:
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ is an attempt to write a native driver. No idea
what the status is of this. Also what is the id of your chipset?

www.linuxant.org -- they charge $20 for their driverloader (after a 30 day
trial to make sure it works.)


>On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:29:39 GMT, Larry Finger
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>David wrote:
>>> Hopefully someone has found the answer I am looking for.
>>>
>>> I have recently installed FC4 (2.6.9-1.667) onto my laptop.
>>>
>>> My laptop is a Compaq Presario M2000 and comes fitted with a Braodcon
>>> 802.11 b/g WIFI card.
>>>
>>> I have not been able to configure FC 4 to operate this unit.
>>>
>>> Hopefully someone knows how to correct this problem. I am brand new to
>>> linux and am lost in what I should be doing.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>At the moment, the only way to use Broadcom wireless chips with Linux is to use ndiswrapper. Google
>>for the ndiswrapper site and check there for information regarding our particular chip.
>>
>>One possible problem is that FC4 may be generated with 4K stacks, which will not work with
>>ndiswrapper. If that is the case, you will need to build your own kernel.
>>
>>Larry