--- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@shubes.net> wrote:

> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > 
> > The HP laptop that I purchased has the following: 
> > - Athlon 64 processor, 512 meg ram, 60-gig hd 
> > - Broadcom 802.11b/g Wlan 
> 
> Regarding the wireless, there are no native Linux
> drivers available for 
> Broadcom wireless chipsets, primarily because
> Broadcom won't (hasn't) 
> released the specs. You can, however, get it working
> using the 
> NdisWrapper(1) package along with the Windoze
> drivers supplied for it. I 
> believe that others on this list have gotten this to
> work. Anyone?

Yes, I've got it working on 32bit Fedora Code 4 using
ndiswrapper. This is on a similar machine (hp
pavailion zv5440) with a broadcom 4309 B/G wireless.

> 
> > - Internal modem AC97 Data Fax Soft Modem with
> Smart CP 
> > 	on PCI bus0, device 20, function 6 
> 
> I'm guessing here, but "Soft" may refer to software,
> aka Winmodem. If 
> that's the case, these drivers are OS *and* CPU
> specific, due to the 
> fact that they have no DSP (digital sound processor)
> chip of their own, 
> and offload that functionality to the main CPU. I
> suspect that NDIS may 
> work with these too, but you should check to be
> sure.
> 

There is a list for people running linux on compaq
r3000's and similar machines. Lot's of hardware
answers there:
http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000


> Otherwise, I believe that the suggestion to get
> Linux-capable PC cards 
> would be a viable option, providing that it's within
> budget.
> 
> (1) http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
> -- 
> -Eric 'shubes'
> "There is no such thing as the People;
>   it is a collectivist myth.
>   There are only individual citizens
>   with individual wills
>   and individual purposes."
> -William E. Simon (1927-2000),
>      Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
>   "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
> 
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