On 06/10/2010 02:11 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: > (I am not making this up.) Such a plea caused me to do some > perhaps-foolish things. I called the library; I volunteered > to help them; I omitted to ask what hardware was involved. > No good deed goes unpunished. > Does anyone have experience, either with this laptop (Dell > Dimension E5500) or with getting a $#! Broadcom adapter to work > (a 4318 apparently) -- or experience which justifies a decision > to just not do this? > Linksys uses Broadcom drivers in their wireless access points, so apparently I've gotten quite a few drivers working.
I stumbled across this page which seems to have a lot of suggestions, Fedora-specific: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-239922.html As an alternative, you might suggest they buy a wireless card which is supportable, but then you'll be responsible for identifying the correct card: ExpressCard, CardBus, PCMCIA and which vendor is using which chip in which revision... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
