Re: HP notebook wireless networking

[Rich Renomeron <renomero@xxxxxxxx>]

James Mounts wrote:

> Neal D. Becker wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm about to order a hp amd64 notebook zv5000z series.  There are 2 choices
> > for wireless, but not much info on what the chipsets are.  Anyone know if
> > there is any problem with FC3 on this machine?
> >
> > Networking choices are:
> >
> > 1) 54g(TM) 802.11b/g WLAN w/ 125HSM/SpeedBooster(TM) 
> > 2) 54g(TM) Integ. Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN & Bluetooth
> Neal: I'd vote against the Broadcom board. Broadcom refuses to create a 
> Linux driver, so you're stuck with ndiswrapper to get it to go.
> [...]
> The SpeedBooster sounds like a Linksys card.
Actually, they're both Broadcom. They use "54g" as a kind of brand name 
(hence the (TM)). Their web site is http://www.54g.com.

My hp zv5xxx probably has option 2.   I  had trouble with ndiswrapper, 
so I went and forked over the cash for the Linuxant driver, and it works 
pretty well with both 802.11b and 802.11g, and both WEP and WPA.  I have 
an Intel processor, though, so your story may end up differently.

Rich

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