hp laptop and wireless

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Daniels [mailto:drs at pointyhats.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:00 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: hp laptop and wireless
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:19:44AM +0800, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 09:04, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > > Have an HP ze4630us and has a wireless interface builtin.
> > > 
> > > How do I tell if the wireless interface is detected by 
> fedora before
> > > purchasing a wireless router?
> > > 
> > > The laptop has a builtin wireless interface and infrared 
> port, however,
> > > I see no such device in hwbrowser, the hardward browser!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > jay
> > 
> > Get an lspci and lspci -n from the machine, and start googling.
> 
> Thanks, it says Network Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306
> 802.11g (rev 2)
> 
> WiFi or Home Wireless network, use the same protocol?
> 
> It's late, I will investigate this further.

If not mistaken, this is a centrino laptop?
If yes, then perhaps you can look for ndiswrapper.
It's basically a wrapper for those Intel's Centrino 
wifi card for usage under Linux.

Have a look.