Driver for ATI Mobility Radeon X700 under FC4

[David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)]

johan.lozano at tiscali.be wrote:

>Hi list,
>
>I juist installed FC4 on a brand new Acer Aspire 5024 WLMi
>how has a ATI Mobility Radeon X700 video adapter an a Broadcom 802.11/g
>wireless network card.
>Does anybody knows what driver is suitable for this kind of video card
>since it is not detected by the system?
>Same problem voor for the network adapter.
>
>Any kind of help would be great.
>
>Johan
> 
>
>Johan Lozano
>MicroBit, Duffel
>E-mail : johan.lozano at tiscali.be
>
>GPG key : 9A9FBFE1
>
Suggest you explore http://rpm.livna.org.  They have a pre-built driver 
rpm for the ATI Radeon and ndiswrapper as a FC4 rpm plus quite a bit of 
other stuff that can be either handy or interesting. 

I've been really happy with ndiswrapper's functionality.  It would be 
nice if Broadcom would release a Linux driver for their wireless NIC 
but, until they do, ndiswrapper works.  If you're running a 32 bit 
version of FC, the Windows driver provided by Acer should work with 
ndiswrapper.  If you're running an x86_64 rendition of FC4, there is a 
64 bit version of the Windows driver for the Broadcom NIC available on 
the net (the ubuntu Linux forums had a copy when I found it).

Cheers,
Dave