Replacing Broadcom miniPCI with Atheros

[Steve Fink]

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. 
>