use of bcmwl5 on FC 5

[Randy Wyatt]

On 4/24/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Monday 24 April 2006 16:01, 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.
>
> I'm getting an error on the network start something about a bad var from
> something called RTNETLINK, but it works rather well despite that.  And
> its strange also in that I see it if I do a service network restart,
> but the error is not making it to the logs.
>
> >  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.
>
> Can't help, I'm on the i386 version of FC5, but I'm running the bcmwl5
> driver from the install of XP Home edition on this one.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
> People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
> 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
> stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
> message by Gene Heskett are:
> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
>

DriverLoader got it up and running here.   Amazingly,  My Laptop is
fully functional with
all hardware working