hp laptop and wireless

[Jay Daniels]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:53:43PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Daniels [mailto:drs at pointyhats.com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:00 PM
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Re: hp laptop and wireless
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:19:44AM +0800, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 09:04, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > > > Have an HP ze4630us and has a wireless interface builtin.
> > > > 
> > > > How do I tell if the wireless interface is detected by 
> > fedora before
> > > > purchasing a wireless router?
> > > > 
> > > > The laptop has a builtin wireless interface and infrared 
> > port, however,
> > > > I see no such device in hwbrowser, the hardward browser!
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > jay
> > > 
> > > Get an lspci and lspci -n from the machine, and start googling.
> > 
> > Thanks, it says Network Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306
> > 802.11g (rev 2)
> > 
> > WiFi or Home Wireless network, use the same protocol?
> > 
> > It's late, I will investigate this further.
> 
> If not mistaken, this is a centrino laptop?
> If yes, then perhaps you can look for ndiswrapper.
> It's basically a wrapper for those Intel's Centrino 
> wifi card for usage under Linux.
> 
> Have a look.

Not Intel Centrino, it's an AMD Athlong-XP-M

mobile AMD Athlon XP2500+ under /proc/cpuinfo

I have never used a wireless network, wifi or bluetooth.  I
was under the impression that a wireless network used a radio signal
since the routers have what appear to be an antenna, but this infrared
port and wifi I really don't understand all this?

But my laptop doesn't have an antenna like a wireless desktop pc card
but yet it says wifi and wireless network ready!

Could anyone explain all this?  Those infrared keyboards and mouse
were junk, I hope this isn't the same type of wireless setup for the
wireless network?

By junk, I mean you had to put the keyboard in the range of the sensor
or it wouldn't work.  I hope this is not the case with wireless
networking?


jay