Getting the presario 6000 to work is a pain. ACPI is horrible, I've heard of issues with sound, and the wireless can be a pain. Right now I'm using ndiswrapper with whatever drivers are on that Ubuntu Forum page. There's a huge forum post on Ubuntu about getting this laptop working, you might want to check it out. I don't have time to look it up right now, but if you find it and you've been using Linux for a while you can probably figure most of it out. Just remember that if you you're ndiswrapper doesn't work at all, you need to do ndiswrapper -m && ndiswrapper -ma and a couple of other things I think. The other thing is that if you don't know if the driver is correct, do ndiswrapper -l and it should say "device present". One more thing, the driver you're looking for is called "bcmwl5.inf" and "bcmwl5.sys". There is another driver for this card called bcmwl6.inf, and I've had no luck with it. I'll try to give you the file if I get a chance.
Cheers, -Peter On 11/4/07, Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what bmc board do you have? try a lspci and tell us what board you have. > some bcm boards do work fine with their native linux driver. > > 2007/11/4, Unknown < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I decided to join the laptop club and bought a Compaq Presario > > V6420US. > > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834147458 > > > > Call me ancient but I´ve never had wireless ethernet before so it´s new > > to me. I can´t seem to get it working. Initially I tried using > > ndiswrapper but compaq.com gives me file not found for the XP drivers. > > > > Then I tried (as I did not know it existed before) using the Broadcom > > drivers in the linux kernel. This fails too with no access points > > found. dmesg reveals bcm43xx: FATAL ERROR: BCM43xx_IRQ_XMIT_ERROR. > > > > The laptop has a wired ethernet port which works without any harassment > > at all. But it´s a laptop... I don´t want to be plugged into anything. > > > > Searching google reveals that some ubuntu user got it working so I know > > it´s possible. I just don´t know what man page I need to read or what > > documentation I´m missing. If anyone has a clue I´d be appreciative. > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > -- > dott. ing. beso
