I've got CentOS 5 installed on my hp pavilion ze 5300 laptop and the network configuration UI says my wireless NIC has been correctly identified and assigned what appears to be the right Broadcom device driver on eth1. However, the inteface doesn't come up.
Google doesn't find anything recent about using Linux with Broadcom except for someone's passing remark that Ubuntu 7 beta seems to work with it successfully. Everything else points to using ndiswrappers and the Windows drivers.
Am I stuck going that route? Has anyone successfully used wireless with the stock drivers? Has anyone who had experience with ndiswrappers in earlier versions of CentOS (which I haven't) gone through the effort to get it working on CentOS5?
Clues, troubleshooting suggestions, etc. appreciated.