Distro Compatability Question

danielgrant · 07-14-2006, 02:25 PM

Hi,

I'm running a Dell laptop thats using an internal Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN Card.

Is there a disto out there that will automatically configure this wireless card, or will work without a great deal of configuration. I've read a lot about problems using wireless and Fedora Core, but if there are other distro's out there that work easier than can someone please reccommend them.

Thanks,
Daniel.

jschiwal · 07-14-2006, 02:49 PM

Can you run "lspci -v" to determine the controller used for the card?
Use that information on the HCL here. If it is a broadcom device, then you will probably need to use ndiswrapper. A good place to start would be the ndiswrapper wiki. They have a HCL which includes URLs to the windows drivers that work best with ndiswrapper. This site's wiki also includes instructions on installing and using ndiswrapper.

masonm · 07-15-2006, 07:35 AM

ndiswrapper is pretty easy to set up in just about any distro.