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. ... > 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. ... This forum thread may be useful: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20640&forum=40 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