On Sunday January 29 2006 3:59 pm, Neil Cherry wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 28 Jan 2006 23:19, John Summerfied wrote: > >> broadcom is a great brand to avoid. Last Great Step Forward I head > >> from the broadcom reverse-engineers that they had fully documented > >> the interfaces and were ready to begin the Next Great Step. I got the > >> impression usable code was some way off. > > > > My Acer laptop has a Broadcom wireless connection, using ipw2200. It > > works out-of-the-box with Mandriva. I haven't tried it with FC4 yet, > > but I see no reason why not. > > If your using the ipw2200 then you've got an Intel mini-PCI card > in your Acer. My laptop has a broadcom chip (can't use the ipw2200 > care because it's an AMD, grr) and I have to use ndiswrapper. I may > try the reverse engineered driver later when I have more time. > > -- > Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site > http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog > http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ Backup site the machine i'm working on is a desktop - not a laptop. so this seems to limit the number of cards that are supported. -- jack wallen, jr. get those pantz off www.monkeypantz.net
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