Linux & My HP Wireless Card

[Kenneth Goettler]

I have an HP Pavillion dv6500 Notebook.

When I boot into Linux (Kubuntu), my wireless card does not work. Is this because Kubuntu doesn't have a driver installed for it? Thanks in Advance.

Ken

[Mike Stroyan]

It may be that there is no driver installed for the wireless device. Or it may be that you have the device turned off from a button or switch that disables it. You could run lspci from a shell prompt to see if it lists the wireless device at all.
http://hardware4linux.info/system/1968/ indicates that a dv6500 with BCM4312 wireless lan would sort of work with ndiswrapper and a windows driver. Other sites like http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/me/en/ho/WF06a/1770577-1770863-1770865-1770865-1770865-79744974.html
indicate that some dv6500 have Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 wireless lan that a recent kubuntu or ubuntu release should have a driver for. lspci would show what yours has.

[Andrew Cowan]

I have a dv9000 with a BCM4321AG and am running Fedora-8. I've tried the solutions listed here:

http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=176241
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices

however everytime I try to load a driver I get an MD5 failure?

Please let me know if they work for you.