On Wed, May 9, 2007 7:59 pm, Bart Schaefer wrote: > 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. Wireless (Broadcom) appeared to work fine on my Compaq Presario V2000, but the connection kept dropping every hour or so, so I gave up and reinstalled Fedora.