Confgure WLAN & APM on RHEL

Hello,

I have installed RHEL3.0 on my DELL D600 Laptop. Installation was
quite smooth. However,I could not get my WLAN & APM(Advance Power
Management features like Standby/Hybernation etc ) configured.

I have BroadCOM 802.1b/g WL PCI card.

Can someone advise step by step procedure to configure WLAN & APM.

I understand that RHEL not built to be installed on Laptop but I need
it to work for my travel needs...

Thanks

maks wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed RHEL3.0 on my DELL D600 Laptop. Installation was
> quite smooth. However,I could not get my WLAN & APM(Advance Power
> Management features like Standby/Hybernation etc ) configured.
>
> I have BroadCOM 802.1b/g WL PCI card.
>
> Can someone advise step by step procedure to configure WLAN & APM.
>
> I understand that RHEL not built to be installed on Laptop but I need
> it to work for my travel needs...
>
> Thanks

maks wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed RHEL3.0 on my DELL D600 Laptop. Installation was
> quite smooth. However,I could not get my WLAN & APM(Advance Power
> Management features like Standby/Hybernation etc ) configured.
>
> I have BroadCOM 802.1b/g WL PCI card.
>
> Can someone advise step by step procedure to configure WLAN & APM.

The broadcom wifi card is closed-source - you'd need to configure and
install ndiswrapper together with the latest Windows XP drivers for
that card.


> I understand that RHEL not built to be installed on Laptop but I need
> it to work for my travel needs...

Have you tried loading the apm kernel module? I'm not sure though if
the other features provided by APM would work given Dell has very
crappy BIOS implementations on their machines.

> The broadcom wifi card is closed-source - you'd need to configure and
> install ndiswrapper together with the latest Windows XP drivers for
> that card.

How do I do that? Can you please provide me the detailed step or
pointer to the site that describe all the steps I need to do..

>
> > I understand that RHEL not built to be installed on Laptop but I
need
> > it to work for my travel needs...
>
> Have you tried loading the apm kernel module? I'm not sure though if
> the other features provided by APM would work given Dell has very
> crappy BIOS implementations on their machines.

How do I do that? Can you please provide me the detailed step or
pointer to the site that describe all the steps I need to do..

> The broadcom wifi card is closed-source - you'd need to configure and
> install ndiswrapper together with the latest Windows XP drivers for
> that card.

How do I do that? Can you please provide me the detailed step or
pointer to the site that describe all the steps I need to do..

>
> > I understand that RHEL not built to be installed on Laptop but I
need
> > it to work for my travel needs...
>
> Have you tried loading the apm kernel module? I'm not sure though if
> the other features provided by APM would work given Dell has very
> crappy BIOS implementations on their machines.

How do I do that? Can you please provide me the detailed step or
pointer to the site that describe all the steps I need to do..

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

>> The broadcom wifi card is closed-source - you'd need to configure and
>> install ndiswrapper together with the latest Windows XP drivers for
>> that card.

> How do I do that? Can you please provide me the detailed step or
> pointer to the site that describe all the steps I need to do..

Try these, found with a google search "Linux ndiswrapper":

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
http://hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tour.../Wireless.html

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