development guys, i found the windows drivers from hp's official nx7300 download spot, took the bcmwl5.sys and extracted the firmware to /lib/firmware with bcm43xx-fwcutter, after a modprobe, and now a reboot, i'm getting this from ifconfig
Code:
[neocool@localhost ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:A4:E7:0E:BA
inet6 addr: fe80::217:a4ff:fee7:eba/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:599 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:48679 (47.5 KiB) TX bytes:6554 (6.4 KiB)
Interrupt:16
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:5605 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5605 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:34710140 (33.1 MiB) TX bytes:34710140 (33.1 MiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:73:68:8C:47
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1A-73-68-8C-47-38-49-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
[neocool@localhost ~]$
i can't see another device in the network manager aside from the lan tho, do i have the broadcom module functioning ?....i'm nowhere near a hotspot so i wouldn't be able to test