[Coco] Fedora Core 6 on a M305CRV Gateway laptop

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Manny wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Brian
>>>
>>> FWIW, I've had good luck with an unsupported Linksys card under Fedora
>>> using ndiswrapper.
>>
>> Most linksys cards are using the Atheros chipset, and that is supported by
>> native linux drivers quite well.  Its the broadcom radio corp chipsets
>> that are the bad boys.
>
>I happen to have a broadcom stuck in this Dell of mine. Good thing there
>is an ndiswrapper... :)
>
Yep, without a doubt.

>Speaking of Linksys, I just put one in to my wife's computer. Had to
>ndiswrapper that one as well.

Oh?  Ahh, I see, old kernel.  I tend to bleed a bit occasionally, currently 
running a home built 2.6.22.1-rt3.

>Both computers running Ubuntu, although she's not upgraded to Feisty... Yet!

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