David McGuffey wrote:
> I'm migrating my son's Dell laptop from Vista to CentOS 5.3. He came
> back from each of his first two years of college loaded with virii and
> trojans. This year he said "Dad, can you give me Linux?"
Wish I could get mine around to that point. Re-installing Windows gets
old pretty fast.
...
> Last problem is with the Broadcom 4312 wireless device. Again, did some
> research and found two ways. One was the Broadcom provided Linux
> driver, and the other was the guidance on how to use fw-cutter from
> linuxwireless.com.
...
This forum thread may be useful:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20640&forum=40
Although it is for a similar but different piece of Broadcom hardware,
and does not come to a clean resolution, the key point seems to be:
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Will you please now look at the output of a /sbin/lspci -n command that
relates to your BCM4311 card.
If the Vendor:Device ID pairing is one of the following --
14E4:4301
14E4:4307
14E4:4311
14E4:4312
14E4:4318
14E4:4319
14E4:4320
14E4:4324
14E4:4325
-- then the bcm43xx driver module present in the distributed CentOS
kernel will be appropriate for that card. In other words, there will be
no need for you to use ndiswrapper.
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HTH,
Phil
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