Broadcom-based WLAN on FC2: supported?
Nadeem Bitar
nadiizu at earthlink.net
Thu Jun 3 16:37:20 UTC 2004
On 木, 2004-06-03 at 11:34 -0500, Steve Snyder wrote:
> I have a notebook (Compaq Presario 2570us) which has a built-in wireless
> network controller. The controller is a Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g chip.
>
> No recognition of this device was noted during the FC2 install, though it
> apparently not an unknown device:
>
> # lspci
> 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02)
>
> Though I'm very experienced in Linux, I am a total newbie to wireless
> networking. Before I start flailing around trying to get this interface
> to work I'd like to know if this hardware is even supported.
>
> So... is the Broadcom BCM94306 controller supported in FC2?
It's not directly supported but you can make it work using ndiswrapper.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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