Karl Larsen wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: >> Karl Larsen wrote: >> >> >>>> >>> Hi Mark. I am writing a paper about getting WiFi to work on Linux. Are >>> you certain there is no Linux software package for your laptop. Do you >>> know who made the WiFi hardware in your laptop? Have you been to the web >>> page with all the data? >>> >>> Karl >>> >>> >> >> When I last looked (a year ago maybe) it was not supported. It's a >> broadcom card (4306), which, at the time, was supported 32-bit, but not >> 64-bit, which is what I have. That's why I asked about ndiswrapper, >> it's the only method I was aware of at the time that would work with >> this card and 64-bit. >> >> >> >> >> Ahh, I knew there had to be a catch :-) > Your 64 bit system is just too much for the people at Broadcom. They > have written software for Linux and it is being used on 32 bit machines > with great success. > > So you want to use a 64 bit wrapper of the windows .dll file as a way > to get going. I will be interested in your results. I hope it works 8-) > > Karl > > Which is what I do with no problems at all, using ndiswrapper and the 64-bit Windows NDIS driver. It's worked great for 2 years now. Howevre, with the rewrite to the wireless stack I was concerned that upgrading to that kernel would either break ndiswrapper altogether or would still be usable until a new driver was considered stable. -- Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
