On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 15:39 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Has anyone had success on a recent laptop with the Broadcom wireless chips in 64-bit mode. I have seen some success stories.
I'm running 64bit linux with the Broadcom wireless. This is on an HP nx6125. Here's what dmesg gives me when I load the driver: ndiswrapper version 1.13 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) ndiswrapper (load_pe_images:573): fixing KI_USER_SHARED_DATA address in the driver ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0) loaded lspci -v: 02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company nx6125 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 50 Memory at d0010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] This under Gentoo though, but it did work in SUSE 10.0 (unfortunately a bunch of other things didn't, so I'm holding out for 10.1...) It may be that ndiswrapper is too old. I did notice that my wireless performance and stability improved quite substantially with each new version of ndiswrapper and the kernel.