Just to offer a different experience then Andrew had: I was able to get wifi up and running in Gentoo with the builtin broadcom wireless in my hp laptop (z4690 i think), and ndiswrapper. That was actually pretty straight forward with the documentation I found.
I had to use wpa_supplicant to get wpa support running, and at the time (approximately one year ago) I had a hell of a lot of trouble figuring out how to do that. There was very little good documentation on that at the time, and the app itself was quite immature from what I could tell. I couldn't tell you now what all it took, but I can tell you for sure I did get it working, until an 'emerge -uv world' broke it and I decided I needed to use the laptop as a win2k3 server for a distributed .net app I was writing. So, anyway, I think if you're willing to wrestle with some compiling, tweaking, recompiling, tearing your hair out, tweaking, compiling again and finally getting it working, you can probably get a lot of cards to work via ndiswrapper + wpa_supplicant. It's a pain in the ass, but honestly fiddling around with stuff like that is 75% of the reason I love linux anyway. On 10/28/05, Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote: > I have zero success getting any wifi to work under either Gentoo or Ubuntu. > I have two cards.. a Linksys WUSB54G and a Cisco Aironet 150 802.11b. I > could not get the airo into promiscuous mode to scan for access points --- > and could not find sufficient documentation under ndiswrapper to get the > linksys to work. > > So I went back to win2K on taht laptop. > >
