Add Wireless to Laptop

[Ian Malone]

Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:10:48 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> 

>> lspci
>>
>> to find out all your PCI-based devices, if it is not listed there it
>> might be visible via
> [...]
>> -Andy
> 
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390
>    WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
> 
> Am I blessed or cursed?
> 

Supposedly support is in the kernel:
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices

However you seem to need some sort of firmware,
see <http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/bcm43xx>
I've also heard of people using ndiswrapper for Broadcom,
however I don't have one myself.

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imalone