Replacing Broadcom miniPCI with Atheros
Steve Fink
stevef at netvantix.com
Fri Apr 23 14:27:40 UTC 2004
Brian,
I've got the Broadcom 94306 working in RH 9, FC2T2 and SuSE 9.1 using
NDISWrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net). It creates a wrapper
and loads the Winblowz native driver for your card.
Works great!
Best,
Steve
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:42, Brian Stretch wrote:
> I have a new HP zv5000z Athlon 64 notebook. It came with one
> of the hated Linux-hostile Broadcom wireless cards. I tried swapping
> in an Atheros wireless card, which fits... but the BIOS says:
>
> "104-Unsupported wireless network device detect"
>
> and I have to shut down and remove the card to get any futher. It
> sure looks like HP is deliberately disabling non-HP wireless cards,
> given that explicit message.
>
> Yes, I know about the Linuxant wrapper drivers, they only work
> in 32-bit Linux. I'm running 64-bit Fedora Core Development.
>
> Any ideas? Or am I as SOL as I think I am? Do all notebooks
> do this? Does miniPCI just require more BIOS support than
> regular PCI does on desktops?
>
> BTW: I have 64-bit Fedora Core Development running on this
> notebook. FC2 Test 2 didn't work, but I'd expect Test 3 to work
> great. The zv5000z is very similar ot the Compaq R3000z.
>
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