[SGVLUG] Linux and wireless issus

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

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.