Mark Weaver wrote:
Actually Fedora 7 ran it wonderfully. I used ndiswrapper and a script to initialize the adapter during the boot process.
I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 on this laptop right now and there is plenty to like about it, however I'm a RedHat man at heart and there are things that I'm used to on my RedHat systems that I don't want to give up. I'd like to get back to a RedHat based distro for this machine if I can.
Not sure if its relevant. I tried Ubuntu (7 something) with ndiswrapper and it worked beautifully. Tried the firmware (using bcm43xx-fwcutter) and it worked too, however the card would take longer to connect to a network.
Dont know why that happened.. i simply reverted back to ndiswrapper.
As for Centos, i have never installed it on my laptop, but only on our servers.