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I have a broadcom bcm43xx card myself, you can look at this page to see if these drivers support your card. If they do, holler back, I'll help you get it working (It is a pain, because they require a kernel patch, recompile, and lottsa twiddling). Also, they only support 11M, not the G speeds of 54.
Personally, since you are new, I would go with ndiswrapper.
Go here, get the source code.
Untar it, and read the instructions (README or install) It works great then.
ndiswrapper-1.16 requires gcc 3.4 or higher
To installe ndiswrapper do:
make distclean
make (your kernel has to be compiled with gcc 3.4 also or make will exit with errors)
su
make install
If you get no errors, then:
cd ..
ndiswrapper -i broadcomdriver.inf (make sure the .inf and sys files are in the same directory you install ndiswrapper from)
If it tells you hardware is present, then:
depmod -a
modprobe ndiswrapper
if everything goes well you can add
/sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper to your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file and it will be loaded at boot
I have the braodcom 4318 card and the driver is bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys. They should be found on the windows cd that came with your computer
CP4S (Crux Ports For Slack) is a very good ports-system. I've added some custom repos, and at the moment my ports-tree contains just about 4000 ports. I know that more than 5000 ports exist out there, but i haven't added all repos since i didn't need them.
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