Yeah that was me. I think I followed those same directions, but in Gentoo.
I got it working in 64 bit, but not 32. Is there still a meeting this month
for the regularly scheduled day? Or was that it last week? I'll have to
bring my laptop and maybe you can show me what you did. There is mention
that there's an alpha driver for this wireless card, which sounds
promising. It will be nice to have native support finally.
On 4/14/07, Jeffrey Brite <jeff@896tech.com> wrote:
>
> At the last meeting someone asked my how I got my wireless card working
> wiht my HP Pavilion zv6000 laptop.
>
> I acutally didn't do much. Debian Etch just released so I installed the
> OS and noticed it still didn't have the firmware for the wireless card,
> so I pluged it into a wired network and ran apt-get install
> bcm43xx-fwcutter and it grabed the firmware off the internet and put it
> were it needed to go.
>
> Before etch I had to manually get the firmware and point
> bcm43xx-fwcutter to it. I've also got it to run with ndiswrapper, here
> is a howto
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_Linux_64bit_on_HP_Pavilion_zv6000_series_notebook#Broadcom_Corporation_BCM4306_802.11b.2Fg_Wireless_card
>
> It's for Geetoo but it worked for me on Sarge or Ubuntu... I didn't
> realize how many times I've reinstalled on this laptop until now. :/
>
> Joey asked me to post it to the website, but I couldn't figure out where
> it should go... probably me, but still....
>
> Jeffrey Brite
>
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