David McGuffey wrote:
I'm migrating my son's Dell laptop from Vista to CentOS 5.3. He came back from each of his first two years of college loaded with virii and trojans. This year he said "Dad, can you give me Linux?"
Wish I could get mine around to that point. Re-installing Windows gets old pretty fast.
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Last problem is with the Broadcom 4312 wireless device. Again, did some research and found two ways. One was the Broadcom provided Linux driver, and the other was the guidance on how to use fw-cutter from linuxwireless.com.
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This forum thread may be useful: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20640&forum=4...
Although it is for a similar but different piece of Broadcom hardware, and does not come to a clean resolution, the key point seems to be: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Will you please now look at the output of a /sbin/lspci -n command that relates to your BCM4311 card.
If the Vendor:Device ID pairing is one of the following --
14E4:4301 14E4:4307 14E4:4311 14E4:4312 14E4:4318 14E4:4319 14E4:4320 14E4:4324 14E4:4325
-- then the bcm43xx driver module present in the distributed CentOS kernel will be appropriate for that card. In other words, there will be no need for you to use ndiswrapper. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
HTH, Phil