You might also want to try the linuxant driverloader instead of ndiswrappers.
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The laptop I have is the L2000 Lance Armstrong edition. I used the wiki > you posted as a template. The broadcom I have is the 4308 where thiers is > a 4306. The drivers they have never detected hardware. I did find another > driver that detected the hardware, but the wiki on it said they never > could get the hardware to connect to a wireless network with it. > > Damon > ----- Start Original Message ----- > From: "Kyle T. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [RLUG] Gentoo on laptop > >> I didn't see you specify which HP laptop model you purchased. Here >> however >> is a full howto on how to get 64bit gentoo working on the zv6000 series >> which has pretty much the same broadcom card as the other newer HP >> laptops. It only works with NDIS wrapper and the windows 64bit driver. >> The >> guide includes a link to the Broadcom 64bit Windows driver download. >> >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_Linux_64bit_on_HP_Pavillon_zv6000_series_notebook >> >> Kyle >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> > Thanks guys for all your help. After a successful install I am >> abandoning >> > installing Linux on my laptop. The death knell came when I found there >> are >> > no 64 bit drivers for the Broadcom wireless card in the machine. I am >> at a >> > loss why someone would put together a 64 bit system intended to only >> run a >> > 32 bit OS and software. I know I could just compile a 32 version of >> Linux >> > and run, but I would rather just wait to see the 64 bit drivers show >> up. >> > >> > Damon >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > RLUG mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug >> > >> >> >> > > ----- End Original Message ----- > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
