allright i need some help i love linux but have never used it with a wireless card. im running fc3 i believe and its on a hp pavilion zv5000. for some reason the os sees the wired networking card but it wont find the wireless card and i just need some help on how to get this working so i don't have to be physically plugged in to the router all the time. is there any way to make it work. and the card is a boradcom 802.11b/g

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You should start by looking here to determine the actual chipset
for your card. It has all you need, really, to guide you in setting it up.

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I have the same type..broadcom b/g and I use ndiswrapper and the windows driver for it...

I've used both ndiswrapper and the linuxant driver, and neither seems to work for my hp pavillion dv1000. linuxant tells me it can't locate the wireless card. ndiswrapper recognizes the card and says the driver is ok, but the card never lights up. Are you using the BCMWL5.inf file for the driver in ndiswrapper?

Thanks!

I'm using bcmwl5a.inf .... after loading the driver w/ndis in a terminal as root do ndiswrapper -l if it says driver present and hardware present then you can, also as root, modprobe ndiswrapper then use iwconfig and configure the card ... once all is working do ndiswrapper -m to make it load on boot ....

Thanks for the reply. I did as you said, but still had no wireless activity. It did get me 90% there though. I found a post elsewhere, in which a fellow said the gateway was being assigned to his eth0 card, and not the wlan0 card. For some reason, the first card to be initialized would get the gateway, but none of the others. To test, I did:

ifdown eth0
ifdown wlan0
ifup wlan0

Did the trick. So, since I don't use eth0 anyway, I just backed up the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 file, and then deleted the original. That way, during startup, only wlan0 gets configured. I also added the "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" into the modprobe.conf.local file, so ndiswrapper would be included at startup as well.

So, the complete solution for me was:
1) install ndiswrapper.
2) install the broadcom driver (got mine from hp) in ndiswrapper.
3) add the "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" entry into /etc/modprobe.conf.local.
4) remove all /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-* files, except for ifcfg-lo and ifcfg-wlan0.