On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:53:43PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jay Daniels [mailto:drs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:00 PM > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > > Subject: Re: hp laptop and wireless > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:19:44AM +0800, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 09:04, Jay Daniels wrote: > > > > Have an HP ze4630us and has a wireless interface builtin. > > > > > > > > How do I tell if the wireless interface is detected by > > fedora before > > > > purchasing a wireless router? > > > > > > > > The laptop has a builtin wireless interface and infrared > > port, however, > > > > I see no such device in hwbrowser, the hardward browser! > > > > > > > > > > > > jay > > > > > > Get an lspci and lspci -n from the machine, and start googling. > > > > Thanks, it says Network Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 > > 802.11g (rev 2) > > > > WiFi or Home Wireless network, use the same protocol? > > > > It's late, I will investigate this further. > > If not mistaken, this is a centrino laptop? > If yes, then perhaps you can look for ndiswrapper. > It's basically a wrapper for those Intel's Centrino > wifi card for usage under Linux. > > Have a look. Not Intel Centrino, it's an AMD Athlong-XP-M mobile AMD Athlon XP2500+ under /proc/cpuinfo I have never used a wireless network, wifi or bluetooth. I was under the impression that a wireless network used a radio signal since the routers have what appear to be an antenna, but this infrared port and wifi I really don't understand all this? But my laptop doesn't have an antenna like a wireless desktop pc card but yet it says wifi and wireless network ready! Could anyone explain all this? Those infrared keyboards and mouse were junk, I hope this isn't the same type of wireless setup for the wireless network? By junk, I mean you had to put the keyboard in the range of the sensor or it wouldn't work. I hope this is not the case with wireless networking? jay
