[SLUG] Dell Wireless

2007-03-06 Thread Heracles
Hi all, A friend of mine has an HP laptop running Ubuntu 6.10 and is not certain how to set up the Dell wireless 1470 dual band wlan (vendoe Broadcomm) card in his machine. Ubuntu told him what it was so is it supported in Linux or just recognised? Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Dell Wireless

2007-03-06 Thread David P
Yes, it is possible to make it work under Linux. There is a broadcom driver for Linux, but it seems most people prefer to use the Windows drivers with ndiswrapper on Linux (ndiswrapper provides a linux interface to windows NDIS drivers). This forum thread may help you:

Re: [SLUG] Dell Wireless

2007-03-06 Thread tuxta2
Heracles wrote: Hi all, A friend of mine has an HP laptop running Ubuntu 6.10 and is not certain how to set up the Dell wireless 1470 dual band wlan (vendoe Broadcomm) card in his machine. Ubuntu told him what it was so is it supported in Linux or just recognised? Heracles I have a