54g wireless card and linux

[erik fries]

i have just purchased suse 8.2 and i cant get my 54g card that was integrated on my notebook to work. its a ze4430 laptop. has anyone had this problem before and if so how can i set it up. thanks in advance.

erik

[Steven E. Protter]

1) Is it on the compatability list for Suse 8.2?

2) If the answer to question 1 is no, does the manufacturer have a driver and installation procedure for Linux, preferably Suse?

If the answer to 1 and 2 is no, you are in a little trouble. Maybe you can find a distribution of Linux that does support this hardware.

SEP

[erik fries]

i cant get it to work with either the ethernet nic or the wireless nic wich leads me to believe ive messed up somewhere because it come up with a pado error. which i have no clue what that means. yes broadcom has drivers. but i do not know how to install them. im am really new to linux.i could use all the help i can get. i wish i new were to go to get help. you mention linux and people freak out. i dont understand it. thank you.

[Steven Lowette]

It's no surprise you can't get it installed. I have exactly the same laptop, and was also keen on getting my wireless working. What a dissapointment!

Googling learned me no drivers existed, and drivers existed. What a contradiction. The linux-wlan mailinglist answered my question for a driver quickly: none!

So I wrote broadcom. The replied (yes they did!) they only had linux drivers for *embedded* systems, and that I should ask the vendor of the laptop. No luck again.

So email to HP. Very good service, but the reply was: no drivers available. They pointed me to a website of someone with a different model, but they also knew it wouldn't work. Finally a link to Linksys, who also use the Broadcom 54g chipset, but no linux drivers there either.

No hope left? I think there might be. Somewhere in the mail from HP: "The drivers being developed by HP are still in the experimental stage and not yet released."

Conclusion: patience...

As I mentioned to HP support too, I'll be a happy tester of course!

[Chris_415]

i have installed slackware 9 i cant get my 54g to work i also i have a ze4430 but in slackware my 10/100 port works fine

[James_265]

You should be able to use the integrated LAN card with the zd4430 using the natsemi driver. If you do have problems with that driver, there is another driver released by broadcom. Please see my blog entry for the url (cs.unm.edu/~jhorey) for download. I have had a weird problem though with the pcmcia driver (yenti_socket) locking up whenever I do a /etc/init.d/pcmcia start if eth0 is up and running. It seems to start fine if eth0 is down, afterwards I can start eth0 again just fine. Has anybody else had this problem. Finally does anybody know any project to release a driver for the 54g wireless card in the future? btw, this is a Knoppix with harddrive install.

-James Horey

[D. Henize]

I'm fighting the same issues. I bought my machine specifically to run dual XP and Linux (RedHat 9.0). The searches I've made the last several weeks all indicate no such driver exists - at best, there's a sort of meta-driver from Linuxant (SP?) - for a fee -that may in turn run MS drivers. Not the solution for me, but perhaps for others. Steve's message above from several months ago holds out hope for an HP created driver? One can hope.

[Shintaro Yamaguchi]

Hi,

You can use "ndiswrapper", which works fine on my laptop (ze4430us) and it is free. Installation is pretty easy. Check it out.