liltux

I spoke to the system administrator at school yesterday regarding my travails with the the crappy Broadcom card, he suggested that I try a few distros and see if the builtin driver works on any of them . I downloaded CentOS 4 and Mandriva one Live , While CentOS totally failed to detect the card Mandirva at least recognized that the card wouldn’t work out of the box and asked me to provide the windows driver ( bcmwl5.sys) I downloading a copy of the file from http://sidulus.textdrive.com/-31/bcmwl5sys

but that didn’t work either when I tried to do it with NDISwrapper the wizard asked me for the *.inf file which I downloaded from the HP site,it seemed that the installation went thru without a hitch but the WiFi gets activated for a few seconds and goes offline, so am still stuck with a crappy card which doesn’t work in Linux.

will post more in a few days….