At work I have a Inspiron 5100. The wireless card has the broadcom chipset for which there is no native linux driver. However, I was successful in getting the ndiswrapper to work with it. It's an ugly process, I just did it to see if I could do it, I don't use wireless under linux on a daily basis so I can't tell you much about it. What I did want to point out though is that if I can do it, then anyone here can do it. Wireless on linux with ndiswrapper that is. :)
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