[nflug] Broadcom Wireless Card

[K Olkowski]

I've been running ndiswrapper on my laptop from FC3.  In my case, I had 
to make sure that the package wireless-tools is installed.  It's not the 
most elegant solution, since it still requires a Windows XP driver, but 
it works for me, so I'm ok with it.

Installation wasn't too bad.  You download the binary and do the whole 
make/make distclean/make install thing and it's up and running for the 
particular kernel you're running.

In my case, configuration was a bit of a bear.  Modprobing and putting 
the wireless card driver into effect using ndiswrapper went off without 
a hitch.  The instructions (the link to which I will send here if I 
remember to do so, and remember what it is) for the setup within the 
terminal, in short, were easy, but I had to resort to the GUI network 
tools, THEN edit the ifcfg-wlan0 file because some of the options in the 
GUI config were grayed out.  All in all, I learned something that day, 
and now I can view My Space profiles on my laptop just like the other kids.

> I've had some of the broadcoms work, others not, depends on the version.
> apt-get the bcm43xx-fwcutter and you can extract the firmware right from
> you windows side of the pc (if it's dual boot). If not, download the
> windows driver and extract it from there. Extract into the /lib/firmware
> directory and then modprobe bcm43xx. If all else fails you can always
> use ndiswrapper. I've actually had alot of good experiences with
> ndiswrapper however it wants to call the device wlan0 and
> network-manager (i believe) only listens to devices called eth* and I
> like network-manager, but you can use wifi-radar with ndiswrapper and it
> works well too.
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