use of bcmwl5 on FC 5

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 13:01 -0700, Randy Wyatt wrote:
> After struggling with Ubuntu and learning to rather despise it,  I
> switched back to FC5.
> 
> I have read and followed the entire mail thread by Gene Heskett and
> others and have followed directions,  but there is still an error in
> dmesg after modprobe ndiswrapper.  It seems to indicate that the
> driver is not compatible with the system architecture.
> 
>   The other dual boot portion of the computer runs Windows XP Media
> Center Edition
> 
> My question is does the Broadcom bcmwl5 driver work with ndiswrapper on x86_64.

You need a 64-bit driver.  Have a look at:

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php

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