CentOS 5 and Broadcom wireless

["Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've got CentOS 5 installed on my hp pavilion ze 5300 laptop and the
network configuration UI says my wireless NIC has been correctly
identified and assigned what appears to be the right Broadcom device
driver on eth1.  However, the inteface doesn't come up.

Google doesn't find anything recent about using Linux with Broadcom
except for someone's passing remark that Ubuntu 7 beta seems to work
with it successfully.  Everything else points to using ndiswrappers
and the Windows drivers.

Am I stuck going that route?  Has anyone successfully used wireless
with the stock drivers?
Has anyone who had experience with ndiswrappers in earlier versions of
CentOS (which I haven't) gone through the effort to get it working on
CentOS5?

Clues, troubleshooting suggestions, etc. appreciated.
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