For the USB card, tail dmesg or /var/log/system. For the onboard, lspci to get the chipset info.I'd be surprised if an older broadcom didn't work out of the box though. Have you checked your boot log to make sure it's not there? Maybe network manager won't work with your card, but that doesn't mean it's not working... I know NM has garbage support for anything they consider 'non-standard' (my opinion of NM as a whole is that it's shit).
So, in order to save lots of bits guessing about what may be wrong, how about some backtracking to the point of failure? What does ifconfig have to say about the device? Dmesg? LSPCI? Maybe it's not a driver thing but a card limitation (some can't do wpa2). Maybe it's a NM support issue (use wpa-supplicant instead). Maybe you really need to get a driver, lspci will tell you/us what you/we need to know to get the right one.
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, [email protected] wrote:
The NIC is an "Integrated Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet for HP"; and the driver LAN is LInux 2.2, 2.4 https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/DG058A.ht m HTH, Sustain On Mon, Feb 27, 2012, at 06:35 PM, Denis-André Desjardins. wrote: Did that, mounted on boot or not, on an install or on the Live CD, it just wants to connect but doesn't. The computer is an HP compac dc7600 P4-650 and no, don't have any booklet for the motherboard as it was purchased second-hand.
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