[SGVLUG] Linux and wireless issus

Mic Chow zen at netten.net
Mon Oct 2 16:45:32 PDT 2006


Really!

Enquiring mind want to know...

Point my google foo..Where to and how?

Mic
North Hollywood, CA
N34 8'33.02"
W118 21'39.62"



Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:
> On 10/2/06, Mic Chow <zen at netten.net> wrote:
>> Well I don't have the same chipset or even the same hardware or distro,
>> but for me, I ended up having to use an NDISwrapper to make my wireless
>> card work.  I am running SUSE 10.1 on a Dell D610 Latitude with a Dell
>> 1370 (Broadcom Chipset) wireless card.  First I installed NDISwrapper
>> (Google: NDISWrapper Howto=
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=ndiswrapper+howto&btnG=Search&hs=UwB&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial) 
>>
>> then had to do the unique tweaking for my distro, but there should be a
>> good bit for Fedora.
>>
>> Anybody else on the list have anymore input on this?
> NDISwrapper is a evil bad hack and broadcom now has native reverse
> engineered drivers.
>
>


More information about the SGVLUG mailing list