You can run the Live CD and find out if your Broadcom card is
supported. I remember in openSUSE on my laptop when it came with
Broadcom wireless I had to download the card firmware, but that was
it. It shouldn't be that hard in OpenSolaris.

Good luck!

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 19:32, Roland Godfredsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if I would be able to run openSolaris on my Gateway MX6441 
> AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology, 798MHz, 448MB DDR laptop with a Broadcom 
> wireless card and ATI graphics.
>
> I'm not very technical, but I have been using Ubuntu on my laptop for about 6 
> months.  I would like to put openSolaris on a partition and see if it is for 
> me.  However, If I won't be able to get the wireless to work then I really 
> need not try.  I mainly use my laptop for just web browsing, OpenOffice 
> applications, and personal e-mail.

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